“So let me get this straight- after ten years of listening to you rant about the greedy, evil Big Pharma, the ones who don’t care about your life in pursuit of a buck, you now are telling me to trust that their rushed-to-market vaccine, dripping with government largess and oversight from career bureaucrats, is ready for prime time, and has no long term downside. Right.” I am just astonished that the about-faces with such rapidity don’t cause Progressives to be torn apart by the change in angular momentum.
Birthdays today include a guy who was a relative; a woman who must have invented Relativity and Quantum Mechanics because it couldn’t be some guy; the guy who invented the non-Gallic asterisk; some French warbler; a rather basic baseball player; an insanely fast guitarist; a guy who led a rather chaotic life; and a woman whose name is now synonymous with “instability”.
On to the news.
Gotta keep the money shovelin’.
Well, this is going as smoothly as expected.
Thanks for your input, mackerel-snappers.
“See, them darkies, they got a different kind of blood.”
Old Guy Music today is a Boomer classic from birthday boy Alvin Lee. This should wake y’all up.
I am just astonished that the about-faces with such rapidity don’t cause Progressives to be torn apart by the change in angular momentum.
Believers believe. They merely await instruction.
Stanford Health Care’s Department of Urology and the chiefs of the internal medicine unit were among those in the medical community who tweeted their dislike for the algorithm Stanford had put in place to determine who would get the vaccine first. Roxana Daneshjou, a dermatologist at Stanford, tweeted that some “attendings… immediately gave up their spots because they didn’t ask to be in the first wave and obviously want the frontline to get it first.”
And a dermatologist shall lead them into the Light.
Gotta have some skin in the game in order to be considered.
That’s just callous.
Hey now! It’s a pretty fair system, warts and all!
Dont be so melanomadramatic.
Hive mind around here.
Water tends to seek it’s own level.
Or so I’ve been told.
Well, it was a rash statement.
Then, I scrolled slightly down…
Oh, it’s just a flesh wound – hardly even leave a scar.
Seems like a rash decision.
^Nice!
And a dermatologist shall lead them into the Light.
But only after slathering on sunblock.
We’ll see if they take the tax hit out of the PPO loan or not. I’m not holding my breath.
My fiscal year ends in September since already filed with it as income.
An algorithm, which was designed to ensure equitable distribution of the first round of vaccines, failed to adequately identify high risk health-care workers.
SCIENCE deniers. Bow down before the Algorithm Almighty.
It’s the model’s fault
Don’t be such a misogynist.
eh when AI comes all models will be correct
Jesus fucking Christ on popsicle sticks! Whatever in the name of all that is Holy is that image supposed to signify? Lazarus? The Seven Signs? Thanks for the tasty links, Friend. I didn’t read them yet because I am in my cups but will peruse later.
Huh. Albert Einstein was a cuzzin-lover. The things you learn on Mulberry Street.
Poe concurs.
We’ll see if they take the tax hit out of the PPO loan or not. I’m not holding my breath.
You can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. You fucked up. You trusted us.
Not me. I wasn’t about to trust them.
I would however, like to know how the loan is going to count on my taxes before the end of the tax year. If that’s not too much to ask.
Cyndi Lauper covers Piaf. No – really! Very pretty. From my favorite album of hers. But you all already know I have weird musical tastes. ::shrugs::
And then somebody went and covered Cyndi Lauper….
Please tell me its Capt. Lou
That was lovely but you guys already knew that I am a thirteen year-old girl trapped in an old man’s body.
That explains the constant “andioop” and “sksksksks” when I heard you on Zoom
I’ve been working with my vocal coach. Please don’t shun me!
Nice. Cyndi has a quirky voice, not unlike Piaf herself, and it really works well here.
I also like the little “Simple Gifts” riffs on the piano, which I don’t believe were in the original.
Her voice reminds me too much of Madeline Kahn.
There’s never too much Madeline Kahn.
That’s twoo.
+15 schnitzengruben
Pontificating jackass pontificates
As the state prepares to administer its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is urging all residents to be vigilant and to continue acting responsibly during this pandemic.
——-
Decisions people made over the Thanksgiving holiday is having a severe reality on the hospital system across the state, Lee said.
“One thing this vaccine will not solve, or cure is selfishness or indifference to what is happening to our neighbors around us,” he said.
Lee also added the vaccine is not a cure for foolish decisions on how we gather, or one’s refusal to wear a mask and it won’t cure the idea that someone else’s decision won’t impact another person’s life.
It ain’t over until we say it’s over.
“Gathering together is an act of selfishness.”
What a fucking asshole.
Top that, Cuomo.
I’m rapidly sliding away from my usual ‘selfishness and indifference’ and towards ‘active malevolence.’
Minnasoda “Fuck off”
For the second consecutive day, Alibi Drinkery in Lakeville opened its doors in defiance of Gov. Tim Walz’s indoor dining shutdown, and once again was packed with maskless diners and workers.
A picture taken by BMTN’s Joe Nelson’s Thursday evening shows a large crowd inside the bar at 20851 Holyoke Ave, with the bar not requiring any COVID safety measures that were in place even before the governor’s temporary shutdown, such as mask-wearing for staff, distancing between customers, and a restriction on total capacity.
It opened again despite it facing a 60-day liquor license suspension served by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that is pending an administrative hearing.
The DPS has warned that continued violations of the shutdown will see efforts taken to revoke liquor licenses for five years.
They’ll all be dead, soon. One way or another.
On a long enough timeline….
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you awesome freaks! Thanks to the Zoomers, too. It was fun to see you all.
Alyssa was so hot, it’s sad how she turned out.
Am I the only one getting a little bored with our ‘heroes’? The bug isn’t even that scary. What the fuck are we gonna do when a real badass shows up?
Nice of the Catholic Church to weigh in. I gotta admit that I really miss going to Mass, but I don’t miss the fucked up organization at all.
“First, you gotta grovel.”
I read that article as cover for the upcoming war.
The ReOpen MN efforts continue, but the state is pounding the shit out of small businesses who have the temerity to defy governor fuckwit and AG Stalin. This was a bright spot though:
Sheriffs seem to be far superior to local cops. They are still shitheads and happy to harass businesses. Anyone who thinks they won’t come for your guns is laughable. They stood by and watched my city burn, there are car jackings pretty much every day and yet the pigs are perfectly willing to go after small businesses. I’m good with getting rid of all of them (or at least the union).
Cool song, boomer! But this is my favorite from TYA.
For some bizarre reason, I woke up really positive today. Weird. Anyway, the boy is flying home today, I’m gonna smoke some ribs and violate the living shit out of the governor’s orders tonight with some of our best friends.
I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!
For some bizarre reason, I woke up really positive today.
Covid-positive?
We need more of this^^^^! I’m still getting the side eye at work for minimal compliance. Pretty sure the hammer will fall next week. Fuck You! Try your hand at my job while donning the mask. I dare you! I fucking triple-dog dare you
Last night, it was claimed that our corporate masters have started watching the security cameras for employee mask wearing. I was sent home for refusing to mask last night. Of course, as soon as I arrived back at the house, the boss was texting me to come back after the store closed because they really need me. We’ll see what happens tonight.
That’s how I feel. A large part of my job requires me to pick up and move heavy boxes of meat and throw them onto a shelf in our storage cooler. The heavy exertion, plus the mask getting waterlogged due to condensation makes it very difficult breathe when wearing properly.
Additionally, HR is going through the time off requests calendar and telling managers to follow up with employees to see if their holiday plans involve travel and/or seeing other people. Every state other than this one and Hawaii is considered a “hot zone” by our smooth brained governor, so a 2 week quarantine or a negative test (paid for out of pocket of course) is required to return to work.
The cruel part is being subjected to shitty Christmas music about how great it is seeing friends and family for Christmas.
Titty status: agitated
You weren’t as drunk as Swiss last night, but close.
It’s a worthy goal. I’ll keep trying.
Socialism in a nutshell, from the TYA song:
Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘Til there are no rich no more
Oh, yeah!
When we’re all perfectly miserable, we will all be perfectly equal!
I always thought that line was the peak of un-self awareness.
Hey Tundra, and other Glibs and Gliberinas . . . I got a work reminder from the “boss” to wear masks when I am outside of my own office. I shot back a quick “got it, thanks” email. At the same time, a co-worker is going to Disney this weekend, so I’m thinking if we get the Vid it’s because of him.
F*cking gubbernator continues to keep dine-in closed until January. Right before the holidays (including my birthday). All I really look forward to during the week is dining out and shopping. What the actual heck?
How far of a drive is the nearest Free Territory?
The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.
The spousal unit is sick of the kids and it shows this morning. Should make for a fun weekend as they bicker.
I love the holidays.
To be fair, it doesn’t take much to get sick of children.
Tired of all the bullshit? We’ve got the solution!
This Christmas, give the gift of ganja
Is it safe?
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday extended her declaration of a state of emergency regarding COVID-19 for an additional 60 days, until March 3, 2021. The previous executive order was set to expire on Jan. 2.
The declaration is the legal underpinning for the governor’s COVID-19 executive orders and the Oregon Health Authority’s health and safety guidance.
“As we near 100,000 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon, and with hospitals and health care workers stretched to their limits, there is no doubt that COVID-19 continues to pose a public health threat,” Brown said. “We continue to lose too many Oregonians to this deadly disease, including over 100 reported deaths in the last two days.”
——-
The state of emergency declaration is the legal underpinning for the executive orders the governor has issued to keep Oregonians healthy and safe throughout this crisis, including her orders concerning the risk level framework that establishes essential health and safety protections for Oregon, as well as orders around child care, schools and higher education operations. Extending the state of emergency declaration allows those orders to stay in effect.
That whole “rule of law” business might have worked in the days of powdered wigs, but we can’t just let people ignore our commands. Respeck me!
“essential health and safety protections for Oregon, as well as orders around child care, schools and higher education operations”
I read that as the orders around child care, etc… are not essential.
State lawmakers call for audit of COVID-19 death certificates
This is a fucking hoax.
I swear I read that during the height of the onslaught in NYC, bodies were dropping like flies, and there were not enough testing kits to go around. So doctors were classifying deaths as “with a suite of symptoms in line with Covid” or some such.
It’s a hoax.
Having trouble finding stuff from the time period (March-April maybe?) in a web search.
However it’s interesting to note that the news reports I’ve found from then were all mentioning “Covid-associated deaths”.
Yep, it happened. And then nothing else happened.
And yet the deaths are still orders of magnitude lower than the initial projections.
I bet that explains at least part of the “missing” flu deaths this year.
don’t use the h word it is not good
suggested music – Entry of the Gladiators on a Limonaire
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/18/947407917/i-felt-fine-but-tested-positive-for-the-coronavirus-whats-that-really-mean
***
“It’s a PCR test — they’re very accurate,” said the woman on the phone from the Delaware Board of Public Health when I expressed some disbelief. We had taken the test not because we suspected anything but because, having driven from our home in New York City to Delaware for a weekend break, we wanted to be good citizens and follow New York’s rules regarding travel out of state when we returned.
The woman on the phone went down a list of the things I needed to do: Stay home. Don’t leave the apartment for any reason. And isolate from Jeff.
…
As a science journalist who’s written about emerging viruses for 30 years, I knew enough to ask the Delaware public health rep whether the lab report included a Ct number. Experts have been saying that the Ct (cycle threshold) number is crucial to understanding how the coronavirus spreads and how it causes disease. It can offer helpful information not only for epidemiologists but for individuals, too — those of us desperate to predict, as I suddenly was, the likely trajectory of our illness after a positive test result.
The Ct number tells you how many amplification cycles through the PCR machine are required before the lab can get a detectable level of viral RNA. If the lab had to go through the cycle just 20 times or so, that means you started out with a relatively high viral load, and it would make sense to expect that you’d get pretty sick. (Though even that is conjecture; no one has kept good track of the relationship between viral load and severity of symptoms, so what we’re left with here is mostly an educated guess based on correlations seen in some observational studies.)
***
[head desk]
I had hopes this article was the start of NPR calling bullshit on the PCR tests. (it will eventually happen) Then I read the article.
[slams head on desk repeatedly]
But, but, but, the health bureaucrat didn’t know ANYTHING about Ct. Oh how that shakes the faith of the believers in the goodness of the bureaucracy.
Wow. Al Kaline’s birthday is the day after Ty Cobb’s birthday. Two greatest Tigers of all time.
Al Karine, no baseball player has ever been less acidic.
Booooo……
MD and GA
interesting
from wiki
***
The reported presence of methane in the atmosphere of Mars is of interest to many geologists and astrobiologists,[1] as methane may indicate the presence of microbial life on Mars, or a geochemical process such as volcanism or hydrothermal activity.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Since 2004, trace amounts of methane (range from 60 ppbv to under detection limit (< 0.05 ppbv)) have been reported in various missions and observational studies.[8][9][10][11][12] The source of methane on Mars and the explanation for the enormous discrepancy in the observed methane concentrations are still unknown and are under study.[1][13] Whenever methane is detected, it is rapidly removed from the atmosphere by an efficient, yet unknown process.[14]
***
Tharks eating beans and cabbage? That atmosphere plant needs some kind of power source. The 9th ray is a lie!
The revulsion online Americans have for English food is a revulsion for a genuinely proletarian national cuisine: preserved at the precise moment England’s rural bounty met the calorific needs of our industrial labour force, a Marxist moment frozen in time
https://twitter.com/arisroussinos/status/1339674016269955072
Which cuisine should I have a revulsion for, if not British? German, maybe? Peruvian?
Slavic
Pierogies say, “Ahem.”
My dyslexia made that Pie Orgies and I was sooper jelly or our resident Romanian
So only online Americans have this revulsion? I have a revulsion for the sewage seeping out of Twitter.
I enjoyed their beer immensely, fish and chips and mushy peas were decent, black pudding made me gag but I choked it down because I ain’t no bitch, but dang are meat pies (rock hard baseball of dough with meat inside, I think that’s what it was called) disgusting.
IMO, for a good pie, you have to look to the Australians or Kiwis. There are some Oz ex-pats who opened a pie shop in Brooklyn 10 or so years ago, fantastic fare.
Had a pasty in Thirsk (of James Herriott fame) and it was … not good.
Had a pasty
You are full of surprises, Mojeaux. /JK
Heh.
Are they pronounced “past-eez” a la the UP of MI, or “paste-eez”?
Let’s ask Tom Waits!
IIRC, I believe it’s PASTeez. But of course I’m a dumb American who pronounces things correctly, so I say PASTE-eez.
I have to go ahead and disagree with you there. My aversion to delicacies like Marmite stem from not wanting to eat jellied malt goo.
WHAT SORCERY IS THIS
https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1339726243294547970
Lol.
Enjoy turning into NYC, Fresno, Albuquerque, and Gilbert.
Five Finger Death Punch is unimpressed with the hypocrisy.
Living the Dream
Good official statement:
T
You can vote yourself into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out.
Public school has made sure our newest generations are immune from you telling them anything. They’ve been thoroughly indoctrinated and all history of the things you have experienced has been erased and replaced with leftist drivel about how socialism is the perfect utopia.
Amen! My daughter just spent a week of 4th grade learning all about the (IMO abhorrent murderess) Rachael Carson. I had a pal in college die from malaria; it’s a rough way to go.
This is exactly what I expect from a band that made a cover of Bad Company, and actually made it better.
Final Proof that Stalin’s Gulag had long term benefits
https://twitter.com/JobbingLeftieH/status/1339967461685407744
“Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! […] our affection towards him will make our arms grow strong for the building of a great tomorrow, to assure a future in memory of his magnificent example.”
-Salvador Allende
https://twitter.com/ArborErich/status/1339972557651456001
Environmental, now with extra mental
With Michael Regan, the young pollution fighter from North Carolina poised to become the first Black man to lead the EPA, Brenda Mallory, the first Black chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and Deb Haaland, the first Native American to run the Department of Interior, the non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council is calling them an “A-team of climate and environmental champions.”
But a fight over the EPA role also exposes a seismic rift within the Democrat’s climate coalition while showing the fresh clout held by those demanding environmental justice and a new way forward.
Forward.
Into the past.
I’m beginning to hope with all the infighting they wont get much done.
Oh, Haaland seems like a piece of work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haaland#Early_life_and_education
Our glorious future – that looks exactly like our pre-industrial past!
When do I get someone who looks like me on the cabinet?
Oh, I think they have proposed cabinet members who have heads full of snakes.
Meanwhile at Cornell, a former university
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16344
***
Students at Cornell University can use their status as a “person of color” to be exempt from the university’s flu vaccine requirement.
“Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC) may have personal concerns about fulfilling the Compact requirements based on historical injustices and current events,” explains Cornell Health’s vaccine requirement FAQ.
Students can send a private message to Cornell Health in order to request a non-medical or non-religious exemption for the immunization. For more information, the FAQ links to a page “especially for students of color,” which is meant to help minority students concerned about the flu vaccine requirement.
“We recognize that, due to longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country, individuals from some marginalized communities may have concerns about needing to agree to such requirements,” explains the page. “For example, historically, the bodies of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have been mistreated, and used by people in power, sometimes for profit or medical gain.”
***
It’s not racist at all to grant special privileges on the basis of skin color.
[Kif sigh]
Any reference to black bodies not in the context of radiation is bullshit.
Looks like ZARDOZ is taking the plunge into the advertising world.
The penis is evil!
We used to listen to Ten Years After Live when we were pups.
??
And-
The fight over this single nomination is just a taste of how hard it is to please everyone while legislating a problem that affects everything, from food, shelter and transportation to foreign policy, public health and the American legacy of dumping pollution in the poorest corners of the nation. And every day, new science underscores the urgency of the problem while often undermining popular solutions and promises to be “carbon-neutral.”
“The science is past cap-and-trade,” said Chad Hanson. “The conversation should not be about carbon neutrality or shifting emission from one place to another. It needs to be about direct reduction of emissions and drawing down a lot more carbon by protecting a whole lot more forest.”
REPENT. THE END IS NIGH.
“I warsh my ass with a rag on a stick!”
legislating a problem
Oh, that’s easy – stop trying to legislate and just let a dictator issue commands. [And the first prog that actually suggests that with a straight face will have a very crooked face after I’m done with them.]
Listen up, plebes, when we are all freezing to death in the cold, because there is no fuel to produce energy, there will be no more plagues. Because 80% of the people will already be dead. SCIENCE!
Predictions made by “the science” have been wrong every step of the way.
Venus was once Earth-like, but climate change made it uninhabitable
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1339865528106663937
how the fuck could venus have been earth like?
It’s a big round ball that orbits the sun, how much more earth like could it be?
The real irony is the corrosive atmosphere is now rusting away all of the evil automobiles the Venusians selfishly destroyed their planet with.
But it’s a CoVID-19 free environment!
This is pure bullshit, like all climate change hysteria. Venus is many millions of miles closer to the sun and it’s more dense relative to the earth so it probably had a denser atmosphere to start with.
What, are they saying the Venusians caused it to warm by driving around SUVs?
The World Economic Forum.
Say no more.
Venus?
“Resident physicians and fellows staged a protest Friday, angry that Stanford Medical Center had denied many frontline health workers the potentially life-saving COVID-19 vaccine.”
The really bizarre thing here, is that all of these outraged ‘workers’ probably have zero to fear from this virus since all of them are under 65 years in age. They have mine, I’m just giving it to whoever calls it first. I have to do something you know.
Nobody was denied the vaccine. They will all get it if they want it. At most, they were delayed a day or two. We got through all of our frontline staff who wanted it, including our medical staff, and got a good start on the heathcare providers from the community at large, in two days. We got the notice yesterday afternoon that any of our employees can get it, so we are down to our fourth (and last) priority for vaccinating health care workers.
Did Stanford fuck up their priorities? Maybe. If so, that delayed some people getting the vaccine for a few days, against a bug they have been living with for nine months.
What a pack of cuntes.
I woke up this morning (Thank dog) thinking, half asleep, about a word we used many years ago, in a far away land. I don’t know if the word is still being used but is certainly applicable today.
This whole covid thing, we the public have been “snookered”. The old “you can fool me…. Then I began to realize we got “snookered” into VN with Ike’s belief in the Domino Theory. The invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, the cake walk in Iraq, the endless wars in Afghanistan/ME. Now the biggest con of all, y’all gonna die from the cheap Chinese flu great “Snookery”..
We, the public, never seem to learn that the purpose of government is to protect us, first by creating a problem, then not being able to solve it anyway. There is always money involved and as OMWC talks about, our hate and now love of the drug cartels. They are wearing the white hats as we are being double snookered, first with the covid and now with the cure.
If the economy survives or not there will be another crisis that only money and more government can solve.
“snookered”
Yeah, I remember that one. Along with ‘hoodwinked’ and ‘hornswaggled’.
I think in the case of the vid, I think all three of those apply, and probably some we haven’t even invented yet.
“The Catholic Church has given its official blessing on only two of the vaccines.”
SCIENCE!
Not SCIENCE, Math: 2 vaccines + 10 Hail Marys = 1 plenary indulgence.
“The antibodies of Christ.”
Amen.
*Crosses self with right arm as needle is sunk into my left by Fr. Dr. Priest*
The antibodies of Christ
LOL
related
***
Georges Lemaître also proposed the “Big Bang theory” of the origin of the universe, calling it the “hypothesis of the primeval atom”
***
He was a Belgian priest. When the pope heard of his theory he asked Georges if he wanted it to be dogma that all Catholics must believe. Georges replied along the lines of “that’s not quite the way science works, your holiness.”
It’s fun to tell not so smart atheists and Christians about this and watch their faces turn purple.
“Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam ‘from nearby star'”
They’ve already said this is caused by the planet’s gravitational field.
But it’s the Guardian, because SCIENCE!
I haven’t caught up on youtube subs for weeks. Has Dr. Matt O’Dowd (who is a doctor, you know) torpedoed the media reporting on this one yet?
Sophisticated economic analysis
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday said Amazon’s jobs are a “scam” because they’re not creating financial security for workers.
“A ‘job’ that leaves you homeless & on food stamps isn’t a job. It’s a scam,” she said on Twitter.
Ocasio-Cortez referenced a Bloomberg News report detailing how many Amazon warehouse workers struggle to pay bills, with as many as 4,000 on food stamps.
The report said Amazon has turned logistics work from a professional career option to “entry-level” work for many. As Amazon’s workforce has soared during the pandemic, safety conditions in its warehouses have failed to keep pace, according to the report.
“This is why ‘Amazon jobs’ aren’t it & we should instead focus our public investments + incentives on small businesses, public infrastructure, & worker cooperatives that actually support dignified life,” said Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter.
And yet, I assume there is more to this story. I should be ashamed, probably.
Well, there is some truth to it. If you live in CA or NYC, you could indeed be and probably would be, homeless if you’re only making $15 an hour. All due, of course, to housing and land management policies that Karla Marx fully supports.
Is it too much to wish for that that commie cockroach trips and falls down a 100 foot flight of stairs?
She could just move to Somalia and then her newfound uncles will put her down a well.
There was a fundraiser event a number of years ago where AOC was tending bar (she’s a former bartender don’tcha know, she’s regular folks just like us) and she was holding the bottles incorrectly. Anyone who has ever mixed a drink for money will tell you that you pour while holding the neck of the bottle, as close to the spout as you can get, so you have better control. AOC spent the evening pouring sloppily by holding the bottles down by the label. She is not even a competent bartender!
Amazon employs over 1M people, and they found 4,000 collecting food stamps? I smell fraud and/or bullshit.
Yeah, I’m surprised the number is that low. It’s very easy to qualify for SNAP, over 10% of the total population uses it. Of course some of them work for Amazon.
Isn’t “food stamps” an obsolete (and bigoted) term for SNAP? Is AOC a wrong-thinker? Release the twitter-mob!
We, the public, never seem to learn that the purpose of government is to protect us, first by creating a problem, then not being able to solve it anyway. There is always money involved and as OMWC talks about, our hate and now love of the drug cartels. They are wearing the white hats as we are being double snookered, first with the covid and now with the cure.
“I’ve been swindled!”
And snookered, hoodwinked, and hornswaggled. Oh, and bamboozled also.
DAGNABIT
Very mammalian babes on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.li/Vly2I
It’s ALIVE!”
“This virus uses our humanity against us. We want to be with our loved ones, especially around the holidays. And unfortunately as soon as you start mixing households, as soon as you come indoors, this is how the virus spreads,” he said.
Disney should make a movie about it. Anthropomorphism is their specialty.
That is why we, your Benevolent Caretakers, have declared that you will no longer be treated like humans nor entitled to the privileges thereof. It’s for your own good.
Pie’s thought of the day: Among the disadvantages of being single is that good steaks tend to be too large for one person. But small stakes make it hard to get a good crust while keeping it med rare. Now a steak of about 16 of your American ounces is easy to cook right (hot grill 8 minutes flip 4 times turning 90 degrees for the third to get grill marks). But 16 ounces is too much meat for one person for one meal. But it would be perfect to share between 2, one being a woman and eating somewhat less than half.
Same with wine, a bottle is too much for one person but works for two.
Thoughts?
Dinner
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ruLC8BwqXVKoFF6MfzKCiRAgin0sy3Qa/view?usp=drivesdk
That looks delicious. Also, I really like the smaller of the two glasses in the picture.
I poured a whiskey to have something to drink by the grill, and the wine for the steak
Here you go lol,
https://www.glencairnwhiskyglass.com/
Why did you overcook it?
I slightly overcooked it, but not by that much. The heat was somewhat higher than I expected and there was also a grease flare of some sorts while th e grill lid was down, which may be problematic if one believes charred meat causes cancer. But overall it was tasty.
1st thought – Your stake typo makes me giggle.
2nd thought – Unless I’ve already filled myself with potatoes and bread, a 16oz. steak just makes me crave a second steak.
I agree about the wine; usually, the second or third sip is enough to remind me that I really don’t care for most wine – anyone want the rest of this bottle?.
*Looks over at wife as she seasons two 8oz steaks for tonight*
Sorry, nothing comes to mind.
I met my wife 2 days after my 44th birthday. It does solve those problems, although our wine tastes dont overlap.
Agreed on the wine, a half bottle is generally about right for one sitting. Keeping in mind that I’ve probably had two or three cocktails while making dinner, and maybe a brandy afterwards.
The steak, though? Sixteen ounces is a single serving, full stop.
Oddly, I’m not the same way with fish. I broiled salmon with a lemon cream sauce the other day, and was pleasantly full after one six-ounce filet. It was really good though.
There is no way I could cram down that much steak in one sitting. ?♂️
Try the 72oz monster at The Big Texan.
For me, 8oz is plenty.
Thickness is more important than weight.
Not another Demi Rose fan!
Perhaps a John Holmes fan?
Buy a “big” steak, 16 – 20 oz, and cut it in half before you cook it?
Same with wine, a bottle is too much for one person……
Wine comes in bottles?
Invite a date over for dinner. Let your cooking work its magic.
there was nothing like throwing on Sugar the Road and doing a couple of lines before or after a rough day. Those were the days. Shit I’m not even that old.
Exactly what Tulpa would say.
Maybe it is. And maybe it issssssss.
Mr. Lizard???
Speaking of wine, I went through 2 bottles of spanish red this week and it was interesting. Same producer same year same grape same price point, different soil. Beyond the over complicated label and the fluff, the info on the bottle was pretty spot on. The slate had riper grapes so more extractive and higher minerality and overall bolder flavor, the limestone had more delicate flavors but stronger tannin, relatively, and more restrained. I think I prefer the limestone overall
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s-Y4obnQNa4FEDgHEW6tWtSVJOF4E-12/view?usp=drivesdk
This is why I find wine so fascinating. And that’s what got my interest started- trying a Sonoma and Napa version of the ’78 Montelena Chardonnay and being shocked to find them noticeably different.
I read they found some wine that survived the 1906 San Fran quake. Some brave souls tasted them and said it was awful.
Perhaps this is my clown college education talking, but I learned long ago that chemical reactions either go rapidly to completion or reach an equilibrium after at most a few minutes. There aren’t many reactions that can happen in the absence of light, heat, oxygen, or a catalyst.
an exception
***
As to the uncatalyzed phosphate monoester reaction of 1 trillion years, “This number puts us way beyond the known universe in terms of slowness,” he said. “(The enzyme reaction) is 21 orders of magnitude faster than the uncatalyzed case.
***
Ah, the DMV waiting line reaction…
well a wine kept in poor conditions goes bad. There is oxygen going in, but very little. And there are reactions taking place over 25 years of slow maturing in good cellars. But hey who has that kind of time?
QUIET, YOU!
I got started on Dune and have been enjoying the Arabic. Bene Gesserit is garbled Arabic for sons of Gesserit. Since it’s all gals, it should be Binat Gesserit (daughters of Gesserit). The singular of binat is bint.
“I mean, if I went around sayin’ I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!”
Kwisatz Haderach is garbled Hebrew: the Hebrew phrase “Kefitzat Haderech”, which literally means “contracting the path”.
Ha is the Hebrew equivalent of Al in Arabic.
Haaretz – the land
Al-Ardd – the land
Muad’dib is garbled Arabic for trainer/coach/teacher – mudarrib
OG Mohamed was a baller. He defeated numerous enemies despite being outnumbered, united the Arab tribes with a common religion, and gave them the book by which all other Arabic literature is judged. So a combo of Washington, Moses, and Shakespeare.
Even Chuck Norris can’t top that.
Heh. Kwisatz Haderach basically means shortcut.
Bow down before Almighty Emperor Shortcut!
If you are into Negativland or sonic tapestry/receptacle programming, this 1991 episode of Over The Edge, Lost In The Dunes might entertain you.
https://archive.org/details/OTE_19910100_Lost_in_the_Dunes
Amazon employs over 1M people, and they found 4,000 collecting food stamps? I smell fraud and/or bullshit.
How many of those 4000 are part-timers, because they choose to be?
Not disclosing part-time employment would be bullshit (on the part of the “researcher”).
I saw a clip of Thomas Sowell talking about hunger stats. They are calculated by determining the number of people eligible for food stamps and then subtracting the number actually getting them.
[face palm]
With a big assist from counting people who “felt hungry” at “some point” during the day. ?
I was gonna say that’s another way they count the stat.
America’s poor are the most “well fed” humans that have ever existed in all of human history.
I’m not saying being poor is awesome, but let’s have a little perspective.
Heard (again) on TV, that “1 in 6 Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” O.K., where does it come from? Magically appears on one’s doorstep? Or is this why every morning the carts come through town to pick up the thousands who starved during the night?
People have a piss-poor understanding of statistics, namely how to apply skeptical thinking to them.
1 in 6 Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
Well, if I don’t know whether I will be getting dinner from the Chinese place or the Mexican place (as happened last night until given direction by Mrs. Dean), I guess I don’t know where my next meal is coming from.
Derpy’s Life Hacks
You can make a thigh holster out of a cloth 2-ring belt and an inside the waistband holster. More comfortable, more obvious. I made a similar rig to strap a scabbard-ed knife to my upper arm, pirate style. It looks cool and makes it much faster to draw.
also, another song for UCS – The Trooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5rfPISIwo
I always liked a locking folder with a clip and keep it in my pocket. It is right there by my hand and I can pull it out and open it in a tenth of a second in one motion.
fun facts
***
Bob Munden was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived”. One journalist reckoned that if Munden had been at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881, the gunfight would have been over in 5 to 10 seconds.
***
***
The Guinness Book of World Records listed Bob Munden in the 1980 and previous editions as the “Fastest Man with a Gun Who Ever Lived”,[6] but they discontinued publishing Munden records in later editions so that the book could be approved as a reference source for school libraries.
***
[Kif sigh]
***
Fast Draw includes multiple events, each with its own world record. The record with the shortest time is single-shot open freestyle (using a light-weight gun) held by Ernie Hill, of Litchfield Park, Ariz., with a recorded time of .208 seconds.
***
***
At age 68 Bob Munden appeared in Stan Lee’s Superhumans. In it, it was found out that his hand is withstanding 10 Gs of force when his weapon is drawn. In a demo, using a Colt .45 single-action revolver, he shot two balloons six feet apart in less than a tenth of a second.
***
I know about Munden but I am a bigger fan of Miculek. Miculek is a Louisiana boy and a lot more fun to be around.
I have met both of those guys and I liked Miculek a lot more.
Never gets old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw
My buddy and I were talking about long-range shooting one day after target practice. There was a line of vegetation on a hillside about 400 yards away that we took turns trying to hit with our pistols. Both of our 9mms were able to come pretty close but the .38 with the 2″ barrel only made it about 200yds. I would guess that the limit of a 9mm with a 4″ barrel would be somewhere around 500yd. Even with his hand cannon that 1000 yard shot is amazing.
I remembered Jerry has a beautiful daughter. I started watching her knife videos and fell down a rabbit hole of videos from her husband Brock, who keeps toucans as pets, and the strange saga of Jerry and his wife having to sue Brock to regain control of Miculek’s web content and trademarks. Weird, wild, stuff.
Oh….and Munden did a lot of his trick shooting with black powder blanks. I am not downplaying his skills….he was really good but popping balloons at a few feet with black powder, C’mon.
They are calculated by determining the number of people eligible for food stamps and then subtracting the number actually getting them.
How else would you do it?
Oh, you…
So I followed some advice online to “let my phone’s battery die down farther before recharging it.” They claim it helps “preserve the lifetime of your battery”. Until then, I just kept it plugged in all the time.
Today this happened for the third time: I took my approximately half-charged phone and its shopping list to the supermarket and the fucking thing died in the produce department.
The internet stinks.
Keeping it connected to the charger overnight is bad. If you’ve done that, yeah, maybe let it die and play Dr. Frankenstein with it.
I thought I saw (on the internet, natch) that older battery tech had the “memory” problem if you didn’t let them run down before recharging, but newer batery tech doesn’t.
The truth, as ever, is out there. Somewhere. Who knows where?
No idea. To be fair, my phone is around 4 years old which is like ancient in phone years or something so yeah the battery probably stinks.
But I have better things to do than play this game any more.
Luxury! My phone is 8 years young and works like a charm…sometimes, if I believe in it.
I’m not sure how they sell new phones any more. I hate when something changes on mine and the new features just aren’t that great these days.
*grinds teeth*
Every time I turn around there are new updates. WTF? After they auto-install the aps are worse.
They are fixing them to death.
Alas, my provider will require me to replace it in 2023.
[glances at calendar]
[Homer woohoo!]
Don’t get any updates. They always make it worse.
^^^^This x elebenty111!1
The charging electronics handle the issues for you. More likely, the battery is just shot. They don’t last forever.
Fun fact: I went to engineering school with the guy who designed most of the Li-ion battery charging control chips on the market. He built his own company in the 90’s and sold out for $300M several years ago.
*sigh*
For your holiday enjoyment, probably the most libertarian Christmas song ever. Performed on authentic period MIDI instruments 😉
Not necessarily libertarian, but I can’t let the season go by without getting this classic out there. Very NSFW.
I wish Festus was around….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdU9gXeF7w
More for Derpetologist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoxfjORvh8
That is one guy you dont want to be down range from.
I’m more worried about this guy: Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueO1mFzr92Y
Fun fact – you will make a fist by instinct when grabbing something. This can cause problems when the something has a trigger.
Ah yes, I thought that sounded familiar.
#letitfall
I remember that asshole. That dude really needs to be in another line of work, one that doesn’t involve the use of firearms…like most of the dingleberries that work for the FBI.
Interesting piece of trivia – about half of the shootings involving FBI agents took place when a criminal mistook the FBI agent for an ordinary citizen and tried to rob or carjack him.
Goodbye, United Kingdom. It was nice those couple of times I got to go there.
What is it this time? More beatings until morale improves?
A “new strain” of the ‘Vid, which, donchya know, is 70% more transmittable than before! Just don’t ask how they know all this.
Between the spectacularly wrong models (2.2 million deaths!!!) and the fuckery with the deaths and cases statistics, I have a hard time believing anything that is being reported by the corporate media about this virus.
I believe the other day something like 40% of the day’s reported deaths were from COVID, That we don’t have any major news orgs asking some very obvious and very important questions about said statistic is quite troubling.
With the exception of one virus, we appear to be on the verge of eliminating all other forms of mortality. You’d think that would be good news.
It feels like we’re watching an elderly relative who once passed its traditions of common law, history, and thought to its daughter countries.
But, although this daughter country rebelled and left home, it’s still sad for some of us to see our relative, now frail and having let go of or forgotten those core cultural values, pushed in the wheelchair back into the nursing home to linger until the inevitable end to decades of decline.
I once had to work with some English guys that were ‘upper class’. Jeebus, what assholes they were.
They didn’t like me very much. Apparently not doing as you are told gets on their nerves. One of them finally explained to me that I was going to eat it and like it. I think my exact words were “Where the fuck do you think you are?”
Thankfully he never spoke to me again.
On the other hand middle class Englishmen, aside from their inability to speak English, are nearly indistinguishable from Americans.
I wasn’t very popular when I worked in our English plant. I had too much of a tendency to ask questions and demand answers when things weren’t happening on time.
Hell, I even worked past quitting time and thru smoke breaks. They hated that.
Yep. I grew up in a middle class English neighborhood in the north. Not so different from home. Nice, friendly people who like to help. We were actually given a car by a family that was moving to the US. It was an old beat to shit Ford Fiesta, but it ran ok.
The NEW NORMAL forever. Demoralizing and perverse. Families and communities ripped apart and forced to just interact via video communication. It’s no substitute. Americans, please hang on to whatever fighting spirit you have left. Your going to need it more than you yet realize.
Agreed. My patience are getting pretty short.
The word ‘legend’ gets overused, but not in Alvin’s case. RIP.
It’s 40F and drizzling: perfect for golf
enjoy your day!
I’ve been trying to make this exact point to people, but this guy really nails it:
“The most important thing you need to understand about people like Fauci and Birx, Whitmer and Cuomo, is that they will look back on 2020 as the best year of their lives.”
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1340332983199252481