Thursday Afternoon SPontaneous Links

by | Dec 10, 2020 | Daily Links | 378 comments

Been a super busy (and frustrating) day here, wrestling with government websites and financial services websites. No, it cannot be easy to accomplish anything if you are an honest human, you silly girl. Criminal who doesn’t mind skirting things? No problem!

Anyway, enough about my day. Let me provide some links for you to ignore.

 

OK, so this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and no New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ohio.

OK, so this is cool.

OK, so this won’t impact Mojeaux, because she only writes quality sex in her fiction.

OK, so this is amazing.

OK, so this is mostly paywalled, but still interesting.

 

OK, so now I’m back to wrestling with other people’s badly designed websites and badly overreaching regulations.

 

Have a great afternoon, Glibs!

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I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.

378 Comments

  1. Hyperion

    I knew the lanks were comin!

    “OK, so this is cool.”

    No it isn’t! Wait… what?

  2. Hyperion

    I stand soooo self corrected, that is totally cool. I keep having these dreams about owning and flying my own copter. Then I wake up only to once again find that I still cannot afford one.

    • Mad Scientist

      You should inspire yourself be prepared by changing your name to Stringfellow Hawke.

  3. Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

    Fist!

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Oops, just a little premature exclamation.

      • Animal

        You can get an ointment for that.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        In my defense I lasted about 4 minutes.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Turd!

  4. The Late P Brooks

    It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency’s worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.

    Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.

    Maybe they’ll have to knock it the fuck off.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m sure there will be an emergency funding bill that gives the CIA a huge budget to make up for it. Because we can’t let the terrorists win, and China increased their military budget by a larger percent than we did. For the children.

      • Hyperion

        We can’t be safe unless we’re meddling in every 3rd world shithole on the planet.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Good luck. But the whine and tears from the spook supporters are still delicious.

    • Chipwooder

      Wait, I thought Delta Force shot Haspel in Germany or something.

      • one true athena

        I guess she still get mail in Gitmo?

    • DEG

      I’m wondering if it is a turf war and the net effect will be nothing.

  5. PBRstreetgang

    Right at the end of the bad sex fiction writing article, there was a video ad showing pictures of Stephan Colbert and Rachel Maddow.
    Now I must drink.

    • Ted S.

      The article also contained the requisite insults toward wrongthinkers (ie. the non-left).

    • Drake

      We’re you able to confirm that they are two different people?

    • Chipwooder

      That will prevent even bad sex from being possible. Who could get it up after watching those two?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      I saw that ad last night and wondered why anyone would want to watch that.

  6. Hyperion

    “OK, so this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and no New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ohio.”

    I find it amazing how a face diaper can improve someone’s looks that much. Now if he would just cover the entire head and wrap it in duct tape and cease breathe for a long time, then finally a win for Ohio!

    • Nephilium

      The numbers keep surging up even after we started doing this curfew thing. We need to extend the curfew longer!

      Fuck. DeWine.

      • DEG

        Do ineffective things harder.

        Hammer, only tool, nail, yadda yadda yadda.

      • DEG

        Insane.

        I’m worried the Clown Prince will levy similar restrictions. Baker is tightening his grip in MA. Speaker Hinch died of Covid. I see Sununu bringing similar insanity to NH.

      • Hyperion

        How does that fucktard get elected? Ohio went for Trump by 8 pts or more last two elections.

      • Nephilium

        He was elected for the first time two years ago. He isn’t up for election again for another two years. And he was running against this asshole.

        Keep in mind that DeWine replaced that other cunte Kasich.

      • Hyperion

        So, the problem is that Ohio cannot find a non-cunte to run for governor?

      • Nephilium

        Hyperion: Local news has already been worrying that DeWine may be threatened when he runs for election in two years by other Republicans running for the nomination. I may have to register just to be able to vote against DeWine twice.

      • DEG

        I may have to register just to be able to vote against DeWine twice.

        🙂

        Do it.

        OK… it didn’t work so well in NH as the Clown won the primary and the general, but I did enjoy voting against him.

      • Gadfly

        Ohio also keeps electing Sherrod Brown, one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate. There’s a reason it’s considered a swing state.

      • grrizzly

        DeWine has already “recovered” from COVID-19. His test today was negative.

      • rhywun

        I can’t decide if “Holiday Tsunami” sounds like forgotten sixties surf-rock or the latest Carpenter Brut track.

      • Hyperion

        “Do ineffective things harder.”

        Well, at least that’s something you can count on government for.

  7. OBJ FRANKELSON

    About that ruling, it seems odd that it says ‘Muslim Men,’ in the headline. I think you might have an equal protection issue if that is the case.

    • Hyperion

      Look, it’s OK as long as they’re not white Muslims.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Chechens have a sad.

      • Gadfly

        I don’t know, that one Tsarnaev brother got a pretty nice Rolling Stone cover, and he was a white Muslim terrorist.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “If these stories are true, they mark a serious setback to a very strong and effective relationship between the CIA and the Defense Department,” said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, retired CIA paramilitary officer and ABC News contributor. “A relationship that has resulted in countless successes in the last 20 years, especially in the area of counterterrorism such as the bin Laden and al-Baghdadi operations, but also in many that will remain unknown.”

    Assume an efficient and successful program.

    • STEVE SMITH

      …AND A CAN OPENER!

    • Fourscore

      Sure hope we don’t have 20 more years of these successes.

      A young man/woman could build a whole career around these 20 year success stories and move into government with those credentials.

      /Gov Walz-

  9. Plisade

    “We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact…”

    I believe they haven’t.

    • STEVE SMITH

      IT HAVE IMPACT. NOT HEALTH IMPACT…MAYBE BAD ONE.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Tell you what, Obergruppenführer DeWine why don’t you believe in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up first.

    • juris imprudent

      So Gautleitern Wolf must’ve been violating curfew to catch the COVID?

    • Fourscore

      Much like a teenager’s driving sklls…

    • limey

      Yes. Thank you.

  10. DEG

    Today, @OHdeptofhealth
    is extending the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in Ohio until Jan. 2, 2021. We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact, and the next 21 days are extremely critical. We must all do everything we can to slow down the virus.

    “We believe”. Hmmm….

    The judges felt that the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well.

    Bad sex is better than no sex.

    Except if crazy is involved.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well crazy is okay during, its the running away after that will get ya.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Occasionally great during, I could do without the stabbiness after.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s like foreign intervention. You have to have an exist strategy. And when that goes out the window so do you.

      • Rebel Scum

        exit*, even.

      • juris imprudent

        No, you had it right the first time. sigh

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Works either way.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    “We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact…”

    Assume an efficient and successful program.

    • Drake

      …on small businesses…

  12. Count Potato

    “this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass”

    That’s just racist against Italians and Hispanics.

    • Nephilium

      What about the Pollacks and the Ukrainians?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        And us Mics?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Ribbon mics are the best.

      • Count Potato

        They needs lots of gain though…

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        *Micks, dammit.

        And if by gain, you mean whiskey, you are correct.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t know. It doesn’t seem popular with Irish?

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Ukrainians have a different Christmas, so they should be OK.

      • Count Potato

        There are Ukrainian Catholics.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Probably just Polaks who don’t know any better.

    • limey

      What are the Irish and the Polish? Chopped liver?

      • juris imprudent

        They are white – a very pasty white at that.

      • limey

        Italians is definitely wypipo.

        *goes off on tangential rant*

        “Hispanic” definitely isn’t a race, but a nebulous, mutable wastebin of immeasurably wide-ranging ancestries, considering Spain itself was already a mixture of various European and middle Eastern people and culture, even before you introduce various degrees of integration with indigenous peoples of South and Central America, etc. The reductive, blanket label of “brown (bodies)” by the race hucksters is one of the most egregiously and ironically racist tropes of modern times. To reduce people’s heritage and identity down to a politically useful narrative is garbage.

      • Not Adahn

        So how does it feel being immune to the ‘vid?

  13. Drake

    Speaking of CIA missions, has anyone seen Gina since the election?

  14. Tonio

    “Virginia will go into a modified stay at home order,” Northam said during a briefing with reporters.

    • Tonio

      All Virginians aged 5 and over will now be required to wear masks indoors when sharing the space with other people who are coming within 6 feet. That includes private residences. Masks are now also required outdoors when coming within 6 feet of other people.

      • Chipwooder

        lol get fucked, Cuntman

      • PBRstreetgang

        Good luck enforcing that one.

      • commodious spittoon

        They’re looking forward to the challenge.

        Defund the police! We need police raids on homes to protect people!

      • KOVIDKristen

        Jeezus I hate this place.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You’re fucking kidding me. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

        I knew Northam was a douche, but *&^#$%&*^!!

      • Hyperion

        “That includes private residences”

        I’d like to see them enforce that.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Who the fuck was so goddamned stupid as to think that was constitutional, let alone enforceable?

      • Hyperion

        Pretty much anyone in government.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And enforcement will be how? Actually I know it isn’t enforceable except when someone tries to sue the state and/or business when they contract it. See! We even mandated it!

    • Rebel Scum

      Just more nonsense for me to ignore.

      • EvilSheldon

        Pretty much. It’s quite liberating, telling the government to eat shit and die.

    • LemonGrenade

      Virginia is an anthill and Northam is your typical six year old sociopath with a magnifying glass. And there is still a sizeable contingent of people within the state who genuinely believe that the governors are doing everything with our best interests at heart, backed by #science. I didn’t read the order previously because I had no intention of complying with it, and now I’m just mad.

  15. Gender Traitor

    “…novel sexual practices…”

    What they did there…

  16. Suthenboy

    “…a tremendous opportunity to provide zero-emissions, air-transport solutions,”
    Horseshit.

    “Bad sex in fiction”
    Objective measures of subjective judgements. Seems legit.

    • STEVE SMITH

      DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDEM.

      STEVE SMITH SMART. HIM KNOW SMART WORDS!

      • Hyperion

        I like this new avatar, STEVE.

      • Not Adahn

        FOREST LAWYER, LIKE ALL LAWYER, KNOW LATIN. BADLY.

  17. Count Potato

    “The online defense news outlet cited multiple officials as saying the intent behind the move is to see if Defense Department personnel “detailed” to the CIA should be diverted from counterterrorism missions and toward missions related to competition with Russia and China.

    A Defense Department spokesman indicated that the shift away from supporting the CIA’s counterterrorism missions was in line with the National Defense Strategy that pushes the military’s focus away from the regional wars in the Middle East towards near-peer competitors like Russia and China.”

    I’m not sure what I think about that. Don’t they have enough guys for both? I’m against the endless wars in the ME, but actual counterterrorism seems legitimate.

    • R C Dean

      actual counterterrorism

      Whether CIA wallahs poncing around in foreign countries actually reduces terrorism is, well, unknown.

  18. Certified Public Asshat

    .@RandPaul is currently holding up passage of the #NDAA, blaming America, and delaying hazardous duty pay to hundreds of thousands of our service members and their families. Inexcusable.Rand and I do have one thing in common, though. We’re both 5’2” tall. https://t.co/l0XebRLW3Q— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) December 10, 2020

    We’re both 5’2″, but only one of us has a complex about it.

    • Drake

      And only one of them has read the Constitution.

    • Chipwooder

      Perhaps she’d deign to explain to us just why we have hundreds of thousands of service members drawing hazardous duty pay?

      • R C Dean

        Perhaps she’d deign to explain to us just why we have hundreds of thousands of service members drawing hazardous duty pay when we are not at war* with anyone?

        *Per a Constitutional declaration of war, of course.

      • juris imprudent

        Hahaha, this guy thinks Congress has a job besides throwing money out of helicopters.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We can go without paying our military and create a new nation. Happened before, will happen again.

      • dbleagle

        Hazardous duty pay is for many things besides combat duty. Anybody on parachute status, EOD status, serving in the MFO, etc. receive hazardous duty pay. That doesn’t add up to 100,000’s though. Maybe she is adding in family separation pay, flight pay, submarine duty, sea duty, recruiter status, and a host of other special pays into the total. But even then 100,000’s seem stretching the point.

        A few years back the military tightened up hazardous duty pay. The rule was one day in a designated hostile fire area = one month of the pay and one month tax free income. That was abused the hell out of starting during the Balkans. Many a REMF came down from NATO HQ, EUCOM HQ etc. to Bosnia or Kosovo on the last day of the month and stayed overnight for “important business”. That resulted in two months tax free income and two months HAZ pay. When Afghanistan and Iraq started the scam continued- plus going to Kuwait or Qatar counted. After several years of this the rules changed to prorate the pay and tax bennies to actual days “in the zone.” Many of us actually in the shit holes for 12-16 months got a laugh out of that.

      • Fourscore

        In VN we had visitors from Thailand and other jurisdiction, often towards the EOM for combat pay. Many GIs in Korea were getting DMZ duty on EOM for the same reason. Not sure if that still applies in Korea though.

  19. Sensei

    Vertiia’s design includes eight propellers spread across two mounting bars that pivot to adjust the direction of thrust. Engineers from the University of Sydney partnered with AMSL, using computer modeling to streamline the structure of the four-seat body and optimize the propellers. The company says the the aircraft will cruise at 186 mph with a range of roughly 155 miles using a bank of high-density batteries. AMSL and U. of Sydney are also developing a hydrogen fuel-cell version that they expect will refuel faster and extend the range to 500 miles

    So with minimums what are we looking at maybe 120 mile range? And something tells me it isn’t going to recharge as fast as my Tesla which only gets to around 80% with any kind of good speed.

    • one true athena

      The price of helicopters needs to come down though. There are lots of commies out there, and every household should have one for efficient disposal.

  20. DEG

    Nashua, NH Performing Arts Center boondoggle in the news

    IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME coming, but Nashua will soon have a performing arts venue to rival any facility of similar size in New Hampshire and beyond.

    Aldermen recently voted 12-3 to approve a $5.5 million bond for the Nashua Performing Arts Center and another $2.5 million bond for a nearby public parking lot. That’s in addition to $15.5 million previously approved to convert the former Alec’s Shoe store on Main Street into a 750-seat performance and function facility.

    The idea has long been a part of the city’s master plan. In 2016, the Alec’s Shoe property became available and coincided with a consultant’s recommendation that the arts center be located in the heart of the Main Street district. The idea was put to a nonbinding referendum in 2017 and squeaked by with a vote of 5,167 to 5,012.

    That’s not a very meaningful gauge of public sentiment one way or the other, especially when you consider only 10,730 ballots were cast out of 57,000 registered voters, with turnout of a little less than 19%. The main concern among opponents has always been a fear that taxpayers will end up with a boondoggle on their hands.

    Supporters, citing their consultant studies, are convinced the bonds can be paid down with the additional tax revenues to be generated from development the arts center will attract. That requires a leap of faith, but time will tell.

  21. DEG

    Manchester, NH school board hands out raises to executives

    The Manchester school board has approved raises of up to 5% for top school officials, over objections based on the district’s precarious financial outlook.

    The vote was 9-4 in favor, with Mayor Joyce Craig among those opposed.

    “In my view, it is unconscionable for the school board to give 5% and 2.1% increases to our highest-paid executives while we are facing a potential $9 million shortfall in the coming budget year, with the real possibility of program reduction, school closures and teacher layoffs,” board member Jim O’Connell said Wednesday of the Nov. 23 vote.

    Copies of the contracts were not provided by the school district until Dec. 8.

    Board of School Committee members extended the contracts and approved raises for Manchester Superintendent John Goldhardt, assistant superintendents Amy Allen and Jennifer Gillis and Chief Financial Officer Karen DeFrancis.

  22. DEG

    Nashua, NH considering curfew to combat Lil Rona

    Some Nashua business owners say a proposed 9:30 p.m. curfew would financially cripple them and their employees.

    James Rafferty, general manager of The River Casino and Sports Bar in Nashua, told the Nashua Board of Health on Wednesday that his business doesn’t even start getting busy until 9 p.m.

    “The economy is so important,” Rafferty said. “We need to put that in the front of our thinking.”

    Nashua sits on the border of Massachusetts, which already has a 9:30 p.m. curfew. City officials say Massachusetts residents are traveling to Nashua at 9:30 p.m. to continue their evenings at city bars and establishments.

    “The burden of COVID in the community is high and growing, so something has to be done differently than what we are doing now,” said Dr. Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum, a member of the Board of Health. “This is all about risk reduction.”

  23. The Late P Brooks

    The spirit of Simon Legree lives on

    The coronavirus pandemic was expected to trigger the severest housing crisis in U.S. history. By one estimate, as many as 40 million Americans were at risk of eviction.

    Then in September, the CDC made an unprecedented announcement: Most evictions had to be halted through the end of the year. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the CDC, signed a declaration that said evictions could get in the way of the nation’s attempts at curbing the coronavirus.

    But the moratorium is failing to keep many families in their homes during the crisis, according to eviction records, housing advocates and legal aid attorneys. Tens of thousands of people have been evicted since September because the CDC’s policy has been applied inconsistently across states and some landlords have ignored or challenged their tenants’ attempts at using the protection, experts say.

    “We’re still seeing mass evictions, even with the CDC order,” said Daniel Rose, an organizer with Housing Justice Now in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

    Despite an order the CDC pulled out of its administrative ass, landlords continue to pretend private ownership is a meaningful concept.

    Oh, the shame of it all. What is this country coming to?

    • Chipwooder

      Maybe stop preventing people from making a living and being able to earn enough to pay their rent?

      Maybe we could use CDC salaries to keep the landlords solvent.

    • R C Dean

      the CDC made an unprecedented announcement

      I’m still pissed off by that. Even ignoring the unconstitutionality of executive agencies making law, on what planet is that within CDC’s remit?

    • WTF

      Where the fuck does the CDC get the constitutional authority to issue such an order?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Article F
        Section Y
        Subsection T
        Clause W

  24. DEG

    NH National Guard to set up shop at Exeter, NH high school to administer Covid-19 vaccines

    Exeter High School will serve as a regional hub for the New Hampshire National Guard to administer COVID-19 vaccines to first responders through at least March.

    Mary Cook, public health emergency preparedness manager for the Seacoast Public Health Network, said the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the National Guard, along with her organization did a walk-through of the campus Monday. She estimated the vaccine will be ready to be given to fire, police and EMS personnel by either the end month or early January.

    Cook said coordination of vaccinating first responders is being handled by DHHS, and the National Guard will administer the doses in a drive-through set-up. She said members of the Seacoast Medical Reserve Corps may be called up to assist the National Guard. There will be other vaccination sites around the state.

  25. DEG

    Second to last link from my NH link dump… Member of NH Governor’s staff tests positive for Lil Rona

    A member of the Governor’s Office tested positive for COVID-19. The individual has not been in the office since Wednesday of last week, and is feeling fine.

    On Thursday morning, the individual woke up with a fever and immediately began quarantining. Contact tracing was conducted to determine close contacts 48 hours prior to symptoms, and found only one close contact within the Governor’s Office, and they are currently quarantining.

    • Drake

      If only their boss had been cautious…

  26. DEG

    And the last one is news that is really going to fuck up efforts to end the State of Emergency. The usual suspects are jumping on it to use it to bash anyone that wants an end to the State of Emergency, business restrictions, mask mandates, etc.

    Speaker Hinch had Covid when he died

    An autopsy revealed newly elected New Hampshire House Speaker Dick Hinch died of COVID-19, officials with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced on Thursday.

  27. grrizzly

    N.H. House Speaker Dick Hinch died from COVID-19, medical examiner finds

    New Hampshire House Speaker Dick Hinch died from COVID-19, a medical examiner ruled Thursday following his unexpected death.

    Hinch, who was only sworn in as leader of the state’s newly Republican-led Legislature a week ago, died Wednesday. Hinch was 71 and was starting his seventh, two-year term in the state House. He previously served as majority leader for the 2016-17 session and as minority leader when Democrats were in control the last two years.

    • R C Dean

      My impression is, without having read the briefs, that the schwerpunkt of the Texas case is the illegality of the election procedures (as in, altered via administrative and judicial fiat) in several states, with the remedy sought being the legislatures of those states deciding which slate of electors to send.

      Not sure how important statistical foofaraw is to that argument. But, I haven’t paid much attention, because there is no way SCOTUS will stick their dick into this election.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s utterly irrelevant.

        In the GA lawsuit which factors into the Texas case, Trump’s legal team asserts there were 200,000 illegal votes for Biden cast and counted. They are broken down, but for simple, one group is 60k votes cast by underage voters. That is several times over the 11k vote margin for Biden.

        I didn’t read the 1600 page lawsuit, but presumably they put forward evidence for why they think 60k votes were cast by underage voters. I would just like see the straightforward accusations of fraud like this refuted. But it’s not. Instead the 60k ballots by underage voters is completely ignored and buried by hysterical shrieking of “no evidence” and pointing to irrelevant statistical bullshit by the media.

      • juris imprudent

        The Ohio AG has taken exactly that approach – the issue isn’t voting per se, it is the executive and judicial usurpation of what per the Constitution is exclusively a matter for the State legislatures. Ohio does NOT support the remedy that Texas seeks.

      • R C Dean

        What does the Ohio AG want?

      • Hyperion

        To be reelected as a Republican while actually being a democrat. It’s what all Rinos want.

      • juris imprudent

        Good question. I had just skimmed this.

      • juris imprudent

        Although Ohio does not endorse Texas’s proposed relief, it does endorse its call for a ruling on the meaning of the Electors Clause. More precisely, Ohio urges the Court to decide, at the earliest available opportunity, whether state courts and state executive actors violate the Electors Clause when they change the rules by which presidential elections are run.

      • R C Dean

        That’s the decision SCOTUS needs to make on its way to providing or denying relief. If SCOTUS says, yeah, courts and administrative agencies can’t change election law, then what?

      • juris imprudent

        Then everyone will know that SCotUS said you can’t do that.

        Yeah, pretty fucking empty.

      • R C Dean

        Then everyone will know that SCotUS said you can’t do that, but nothing will happen if you do.

      • Hyperion

        I might be misunderstanding it. I thought their argument is that it is all of the state’s business in a national election, since one state cheating is disenfranchising the states who followed the law. That sort of makes sense, but I’m not a lawyer.

      • juris imprudent

        So even Rudy, and the rest of Trump’s lawyers don’t accuse anyone of fraud – directly. They’d have to back that up, and they can’t.

        Read the article wrt to the Ohio AG – he makes the point that the Constitution is already clear, and further abuse of that isn’t a good solution.

    • robc

      They arent called the stupid party for nothing.

      That is the dumbest statistical analysis I have seen. Which leads to the question, why not use the good statistical analysis that is out there?

  28. Drake

    A friend at the gym was just taking about a friend in the hospital with pneumonia. 7 covid tests so far – 2 positive 5 negative. The 2 positives will probably help keep the state locked down.

    • Count Potato

      So at best, the tests are wrong 28% of the time?

      • Drake

        The nice thing is the put him in the covid wing – so he probably will get it (if anyone there actually has it).

      • Count Potato

        OFFS!!

    • Hyperion

      I’ve heard numerous times now that the tests cannot accurately test for Covid 19 because whatever it is they are actually testing for returns too many false positives. That’s why we have to keep testing, gotta pad those numbers! 7 tests, 5 positives for one person, that’s 5 more cases!

      • DEG

        Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has talked about the PCR tests.

        At the Reopen NH legislator summit, he said the number of cycles of doubling virus material is key. Using 40 cycles, which is typical in the US, is too high, and results in false positives. He says PCR results should include the number of cycles so folks can judge whether or not the results are good.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It looks like it was recorded in 1989, but they’re talking about current events…

        Witches! All of them!

  29. The Other Kevin

    As long as that helicopter can get me and my hockey back up to Chicago twice a week I’m all for it.

    • The Other Kevin

      Hockey BAG.

  30. grrizzly

    We used science to make Thanksgiving as safe as possible. Here’s what happened next
    We ate with the windows and doors open and the fans on, and masked except when actively putting food in our mouths.

    I’m a physician in Boston, and I have been obsessed with the coronavirus pandemic since the first stories trickled out of China into my consciousness. Every day I listen to podcasts and medical lectures by a long line of virologists, epidemiologists, aerosolologists, and infectious disease doctors. Every week, I write an essay for my friends and family in my area about what we’ve learned about COVID-19 and how to protect ourselves.

    My sons Mackenzie, 24, and Cooper, 21, live nearby and have been what I call “COVID-conscious” since the start. Both kids work and study from their apartments, have small friend pods, have excellent COVID hygiene, particularly with me and anyone who falls into a high-risk group, and both had stayed mostly bubbled at home the previous two weeks.

    Because of this, we agreed to have a science-based “as-safe-as-we-can-make-it” Thanksgiving following all the techniques I had researched.

    We kept it small (just the three of us), we kept it short (two hours), and we kept the kitchen-cooking time to a minimum. We ate with the windows and doors open and the fans on, and the boys sat far apart in the dining room while I ate in the adjacent kitchen. We gathered together only once, for a couple of two-second photos, smiling behind our masks and instinctively inhaling. In fact, we masked except when actively putting food in our mouths, pulling our masks back up into place between servings and when chatting during the meal.

    • DEG

      That is insane.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      What happened next

      • grrizzly

        See below.

    • Sensei

      JFC…

    • KOVIDKristen

      My sons Mackenzie, 24, and Cooper, 21

      Oh for fuck’s sake.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        I’m surprised there isn’t a Dakota.

      • commodious spittoon

        I take back any unkind thought I’ve had about fashionably trans teenagers. If you want to mutilate your bodies and sterilize yourselves because that’s the fad of the day, go for it and God bless, you twisted fucks. But quit it with the fucking masks already.

      • limey

        Voluntary eugenics. A noble sacrifice.

      • Old Man With Candy

        These are the dogs’ names.

      • The Hyperbole

        Perfectly cromulent names.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        (I shouldn’t poke fun, kiddo number 1 has a name that only the likes of Sloopy and others who have lived in C’bus would have heard).

      • The Hyperbole

        You named your kid Funderburke?

      • Ted S.

        Schlichter.

      • Shpip

        There was that trend about 25 years ago where the girls were named after dead Presidents (Madison, Taylor) and the boys were named after medieval occupations (Cooper, Hunter, Mason).

        Same thing happened to our generation. Remember elementary school, where every class had three or four Jennifers?

      • KOVIDKristen

        There were at least 4 other Kristens in my class, along with other variations using “Kris”. As contrarian and deliberately anti-trendy as I am, I don’t mind it.

      • Gender Traitor

        I once met a Jennifer who was so tired of being just one of many Jennies that she decided to go by “Niffer.”

      • DEG

        Remember elementary school, where every class had three or four Jennifers?

        Yes.

      • Nephilium

        Nope. No idea what you’re talking about.

        There were three Michaels (who all went by Mike) in my class in grade school.

      • Tundra

        Lol. I married one.

        27 Jennifers.

      • Fourscore

        4th grade about, circa 1946, 5 Roberts, 5 Carols

    • The Other Kevin

      There were 12 of us at Thanksgiving. We did the exact opposite, and got the same results.

      • R C Dean

        Six of us, zero precautions, no infections.

      • Hyperion

        It’s just that none of y’all have tested yet. Otherwise you would know that you’re now all infected and must be sent to the camps for your own good.

    • R C Dean

      I have been obsessed with the coronavirus pandemic

      I think I see the problem.

    • Rebel Scum

      and the fans on

      Blowing what droplets you might exhale around the house. Good strategy.

    • grrizzly

      But then, on Saturday morning while I was walking with a friend at the Pope John Paul II Park in Dorchester, Kenzie texted me saying, “Sooooo, I have bad news.” Half a minute later he sent a second text that read, “I feel horrible.”

      I knew instantly what it was — he was sick with COVID. Which meant he had been contagious on Thanksgiving.

      Every parent has their lowest parenting moment. This was mine. I bent over on the walkway and I just could not stand up. All I could think was, “Why, why, why didn’t we just skip Thanksgiving this year? And now it is too late to stop whatever tsunami is coming our way.”

      The rest of Kenzie’s texts confirmed my fears: He was sick with a fever, body aches, headache. He had lost his sense of smell and taste. He tested positive for COVID later that day.

      This is exactly how COVID-19 spreads: A person, like my beloved son, can have it, be contagious, but have no symptoms at all, not a single clue, for several days before getting sick.

      This is exactly why we were so meticulously careful about our Thanksgiving. We knew it was possible one of us could be that asymptomatic contagious person. Not likely, not even probable. Kenzie has five friends in his bubble. All had been tested the week before for travel and were negative. All have been tested since and stayed negative, and all were asymptomatic. He had only shopped, carefully, at a couple of large stores.

      And as it turned out, the precautions we did have in place worked. Cooper and I are COVID-19 negative. And Kenzie had a rough week but is getting better. We’re all getting better.

      • R C Dean

        And as it turned out, the precautions we did have in place worked.

        Well, except for these precautions:

        My sons Mackenzie, 24, and Cooper, 21, live nearby and have been what I call “COVID-conscious” since the start. Both kids work and study from their apartments, have small friend pods, have excellent COVID hygiene, particularly with me and anyone who falls into a high-risk group, and both had stayed mostly bubbled at home the previous two weeks.

      • juris imprudent

        can have it, be contagious, but have no symptoms at all

        Who caught it from him? If no one caught it from him – what makes you so sure he was contagious?

      • R C Dean

        All have been tested since and stayed negative, and all were asymptomatic

        If they don’t have it, wouldn’t they be asymptomatic as a matter of course?

        I’m starting to suspect this guy didn’t graduate at the top of his class.

    • KOVIDKristen

      I was walking through the rabbit warren known as Wall Drug without a mask in Sept. Fuck this fucking re-panic shit.

      • commodious spittoon

        I’m beginning to think lockdownistas are so desperate for a moral equivalent of war to unite the country in solidarity/otherize the enemy that they’ve seized on Covid as their casus belli. Except the enemy is, loosely, Trump and his supporters/enablers, and anyone who dissents from economic destruction.

        I get real white feather brigade vibes from the mouthbreathers pushing mask mandates.

      • zwak

        This is it exactly.

        Some groups of people have conflated the Coronavirus and Trump, making a sort of connection that the country is diseased. And as long as Trump is still in the picture in some way, the virus has not been dealt with satisfactorily.

        And the big gov’t types are taking advantage of this to ram down our throats that only the gov’t can save us. So, it doesn’t matter that the best thing would be to let everyone live their lives, as that doesn’t take The Intervention. And that is the real reason they hated Trump so much. He represented, in their eyes at least, the disregard of Top. Men.

  31. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Carried over from a comment from Trashy’s article… devastating news today.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Every day I listen to podcasts and medical lectures by a long line of virologists, epidemiologists, aerosolologists, and infectious disease doctors. Every week, I write an essay for my friends and family in my area about what we’ve learned about COVID-19 and how to protect ourselves.

    Well, aren’t you spatial?

  33. Rebel Scum

    Today, @OHdeptofhealth is extending the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in Ohio until Jan. 2, 2021. We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact, and the next 21 days are extremely critical. We must all do everything we can to slow down the virus.

    Don’t feed the virus after 10pm.

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s the version of Groundhog Day they play on movie night in hell.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      I wonder why they are putting the squeeze on Dirty Dianna?

      Of course, my question is, how can you tell she is declining? She seems like the same mendacious idiot she has always been.

      • juris imprudent

        Because they can get two fresh screaming lefties from CA to replace her and Harris?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I suppose so, but she will go wherever the wind is blowing in the party, and right now it is blowing right to left.

      • R C Dean

        I can hardly wait to see who Newsom appoints.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Hunter is also being probed”

      Paging STEVE SMITH…

    • Hyperion

      “They should investigate Joe Biden.”

      That one’s too easy.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      They should assign a special prosecutor.

      • Hyperion

        On day one, and start multiple never ending investigations and harass ol Joe to within an inch of his life 24/7, 365, for the remainder of his term. Turn about is fair play, lie in the bed you made, reap what you sow. Not my president.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        The only problem is that we might end up with President Harris. On the other hand, that’s probably going to happen anyway.

      • R C Dean

        On day one, and start multiple never ending investigations and harass ol Joe to within an inch of his life 24/7, 365, for the remainder of his term.

        That, of course, requires a DOJ and FBI who are willing to play along. Which means, not gonna happen no matter what Trump does or what evidence is presented.

      • limey

        On day one, and start multiple never ending investigations and harass ol Joe to within an inch of his life 24/7, 365, for the remainder of his term. Turn about is fair play, lie in the bed you made, reap what you sow. Not my president.

        Damn right.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Whatever, Karen

    As coronavirus vaccines begin rolling out — a crucial step in ending the pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people and caused economic pain around the globe — Melinda Gates is urging leaders of wealthy countries not to forget about the rest of the world.
    “Everybody needs this vaccine,” Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN’s Poppy Harlow in a broadcast interview Thursday. “If we only get it to the high-income countries, this disease is going to bounce around. We’re going to see twice as many deaths. And our recovery of our economies is going to be much slower than if we get the vaccine out to everybody.”

    I don’t want to look at you. I don’t care what you and your idiot husband think about anything.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Never forget Melinda was the Bob marketing manager.

      • Sensei

        I always make that point too!

      • juris imprudent

        Look at it this way – she leveraged that into BILLIONS.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Beyond achieving a world record of “YASS QUEEN SLAY” comments on twitter and throwing temper tantrums on the House floor, she has not demonstrated any degree of competence at anything that I am aware of.

      • Chipwooder

        She might be a competent bartender, maybe. One who actually knows how to mix a drink rather than one who just pulls draft beer.

      • Count Potato

        Oh, I meant Susan Rice, but they are both awful.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    What happened next

    They got pneumonia from spending the day with the windows and doors wide open.

  36. Hyperion

    I think I’d better play some Cyberpunk 2077 since I payed for it.

    I got in about 20 minutes last night. First impressions: seems the game wants to be played with a controller. Not good since I’m a K&M sort of guy. The graphics are meh, even on max settings at 3440×1140.

    • Trolleric the Goth

      even with raytracing on you feel that way? I think it looks like the first truly generational improvement of graphics I’ve seen in a game for awhile.

      runs ~60fps on my 2080ti, 1440P, RT ultra, DLSS auto.

    • limey

      Thicc?

      • Hyperion

        Skanky maybe, white trashy?

      • limey

        That’s the way
        Uh huh uh huh
        I like it
        Uh huh uh huh

      • limey

        Heck yes, and a some late Hank Jr because I had it on earlier today.

        Cut off jeans and cowboy boots
        Long blonde hair and dark brown roots

    • Drake

      After she embarrassed Dems, they had the journalist wing of the party fulfill their responsibility of digging dirt on their enemies.

      • The Hyperbole

        How did drunkenly asserting obviously false accusations embarrass Dems?

      • Drake

        The formal legal position of almost half the state’s is that this election was fraudulent.

        If her allegations were “fake” they would investigate then charge her with perjury. Since they arent

      • Drake

        …they went with character assassination.

    • DEG

      Prediction: The usual suspects won’t decry slut shaming in this case.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Would have.

      • Rebel Scum

        Still would.

    • KOVIDKristen

      (and the audio/visual alignment says “government operation!!!”)

    • limey

      That seems an odd choice of dedication for an airport.

      • KOVIDKristen

        Lots of jumbos & cargo…it’s a really interesting airport

      • limey

        I may watch it. I’m backed up on my youtube subs for a few weeks but I might have some time over Christmas. Earlier this year I watched a load of aviation documentaries, and one that I suppose was ballpark was following a C-5 crew on making some kind of record-breaking flight delivering hardware to Afghanistan. That was interesting. They were all interesting. I like planes.

      • limey

        Ps – RIP Chuck Yeager. I suppose he has a very strong connection to this part of the world.

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        I like the little taxiway that crosses a road over to the Lake Hood airport PALH 2200′ gravel airport + seaplane base.

        https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2013/01500AD.PDF

        So you can land and take off if the area is IFR and taxi back home, but still normally fly out of the small field.

        I have a friend that was always in and out of there when he was right seat in the 747 cargo.

      • KOVIDKristen

        You’ll see the seaplane base in one of the early scenes in the link I posted…really pretty for being in the middle of a major airport!

  37. Shpip

    A bit of sad news. Henry the cat (better known as Henri, le Chat Noir) has died at the ripe old age of seventeen.

    He became an internet celebrity cat through a series of films, the proceeds of which raised money for animals in need.

    Cat videos are, after all, why Al Gore invented the internet.

    • KOVIDKristen

      Aw, dang. Grumpy Cat died earlier this year, too, IIRC

      • Shpip

        Tardar Sauce, AKA Grumpy Cat, passed in May 2019 at the age of seven. Lil Bub followed her across the bridge last December.

  38. limey

    Troy Senik has the Chinese respiratory ailment. RIP, Hoover Institution podcasts.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    De-cootie-fication

    When the White House welcomes a new first family it gets a thorough cleaning in the five hours allotted for the turnover. But with a global pandemic raging — and an outgoing President whose orbit is rife with people shunning public health guidelines and coming down with Covid-19, this January 20 is expected to include a deeper, more exhaustive cleaning, according to a White House official.
    It’s one of many changes expected around how the White House operates when President-elect Joe Biden takes over. His campaign has diligently modeled public health guidelines with mask wearing and social distancing even as he campaigned against outgoing President Donald Trump, who instead held large rallies packed with people, many of whom did not wear masks.
    While there are not “firm plans” for execution, the agency in charge of things, the General Services Administration, is handling what will be a “thorough disinfecting and cleansing” of every surface in the 55,000 square foot mansion.

    ——-

    Press have witnessed some of the current cleaning, which involve staff in full hazmat-looking suits misting widely used areas such as the briefing room.

    These misters are now a frequent and welcome presence to those who work in the building, as science has determined the highly contagious coronavirus can linger on surfaces, as well as be passed through air.
    The misters, and the cleaners, will have to tackle the White House’s 132 rooms, which consist of 16 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, six levels of the residence, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases and at least three elevators.

    Burn it down, and bring in some FEMA trailers.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      The Hat is probably busy crapping in a bunch of hidden nooks and crannies.

    • juris imprudent

      And I’m assuming Harris’ team will be right behind the cleaning crew, trying to contaminate everything in sight.

      • limey

        Lick the pen and the phone. That ought to do it.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        That’s what Willie Brown said.

      • limey

        Kinky. I’ll bet he had a whole cupboard full of air freshener what for displacing the stank in his office. Those were the days.

    • Rebel Scum

      I hope they did that after the Clinton administration…

    • Plisade

      “science has determined” = whatever follows is bullshit

  40. Derpetologist

    Aloha

    Welding is going great. My 2nd night they already let me try to stack beads. I’m stick welding 7810, for those curious. I have a real good feeling about this. 1 week down, 17 to go.

    OPFOR is great. I had a lot of fun wearing out one interrogator after another. The only one that gave me a run for my money was a native speaker of Arabic. She pushed me around like a broom til I said uncle. It turns out being stubborn and argumentative is a kind of superpower.

    • limey

      7018?

      • limey

        Ps – excellent work. I’m about done on MMA for now. I hate chipping slag out of fillet welds. I have a sweet burn on my neck where a piece landed and I couldn’t get it out. We’re onto MIG now which I already have experience of so I’m in my comfort zone.

      • Derpetologist

        Yeah, that’s it. I mixed up the numbers.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Native Arabic speaker? Pics or GTFO.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    And as it turned out, the precautions we did have in place worked. Cooper and I are COVID-19 negative. And Kenzie had a rough week but is getting better. We’re all getting better.

    So- your freakish hysterical paranoia was unnecessary. But don’t let that seep into your consciousness.

    Continue to pretend you’re making midnight sorties against SS headquarters with the French Resistance. Your bravery will be recognized by those who truly matter. You will receive your Medal of Honor in the War on Commie Sniffles.

    • R C Dean

      We’re all getting better.

      Two of you were never sick. Exactly how, then, are you “getting better”?

      The more I read, the dumber this guy looks.

      • grrizzly

        That’s a woman.

      • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

        Which kind of explains the entire tone of the article for me.

  42. grrizzly

    MA: Prisoners to get first crack at coronavirus vaccine under Charlie Baker’s plan

    The governor’s plan released on Wednesday puts prison and jail inmates and homeless people among the first to be given doses of the coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes approved by the FDA.

    The three-phased plan put out by Baker gives first priority to vulnerable groups living in congregate shelters and settings, which includes prisoners. The first doses will also be given to health care workers directly involved in COVID-19, workers and residents in long-term care facilities, police, fire and other emergency personnel.

    So under Baker’s plan, child molesters, rapists and murderers will be getting the vaccine before the general public or even people who are 65 and older.

    • DEG

      Cynical take: He’s looking for guinea pigs to do the long term testing that the vaccine trials didn’t have time to.

      • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

        Great minds.

        Give it to the underbelly of our civilization first, and then take note. Assuming the denizens of the underbelly don’t simply refuse to take the vaccine, of course…

      • grrizzly

        Or he wants to avoid embarrassment if too few people get a vaccine at the beginning of the vaccination campaign.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Soon to go down in history as this generation’s Tuskegee experiments.

    • juris imprudent

      Maybe he’s thinking guinea pigs?

    • The Other Kevin

      I liked this story better when it was called Deadpool.

      • Count Potato

        I love that movie.

  43. Yusef drives a Kia

    I accepted a Job offer today,2$ more than expected, all the normal perks, Van, Iphone, etc. and a 5K signing bonus, was not expecting that, yippee for me!
    I’m also going to be the guest on a Podcast next week, talking about life in the Slabs, based on a recommendation from someone, I think I know who….

    • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

      “Exxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”

    • KOVIDKristen

      Yay!!!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m up to 50% of Cali wages, and 1/3 the cost of living, not bad for an old Man…

      • TARDis

        Yessireee! Good maths. Congrats.

    • DEG

      Excellent!

    • limey

      It seems like you’ve got a new job every week now, Yufusef. Congrats.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        and they keep getting better, I want a job I can stick with, and not get bored, home based, and autonomous, this may be the one….

      • limey

        Fingers: crossed
        Tits: calm

        Here’s hoping

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thankee Sir!

    • Sean

      Awesome. ?

    • Rebel Scum

      5K signing bonus

      That’s a lot of tall cans.

      • Fourscore

        …and maybe a step up from the previous refreshments….

        Good news, Yusef

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        YAY 4x! I got your gift today, already started Jalepenos and sweet Red Peppers, oh and some Black Tomatoes, might have to vine them, but so what,
        Life! Many will go into my raised bed/Bunnie proof garden in Spring, thanks so much!

    • EvilSheldon

      Cool!

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Congrats!

    • straffinrun

      Nice, Yusef. Roller coaster going up for a change? Good.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Hah! no Shit, I hope I can ride this one for a while, It looks good on paper….

    • Count Potato

      Go you!

    • Tundra

      I can’t tell you how happy this makes me.

      Go kick some ass, brother!

    • mrfamous

      ‘grats!

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Welding is going great. My 2nd night they already let me try to stack beads. I’m stick welding 7810

    I haven’t used a stick welder in (literally!) decades. TIg or GTFO.

    Seriously- Nice. It’s a skill you can always use. To steal a line from somebody around here, you’ll never say, “I regret learning to weld,”
    on your death bed.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Unless you are killed in a tragic welding accident.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That killed me once, slag down my shirt, then the other shirt, then my pants and cooled off in my Chonies waistline, Scars all around,

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Chicks dig scars.

    • zwak

      I got rid of everything except my gas welding set. O/A or GTFO.

      Then again, I haven’t done anything except braise HVAC in decades.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I love to Braze, it’s truly awesome to watch it flow…

  45. Mojeaux

    The winners of the bad literary sex award are almost ALWAYS men. d00ds need to read some romance novels.

    I got hired once to rewrite a d00d’s sex scenes and he was more than happy to have someone who could and would.

    • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

      What can I say? We’re good at bad.

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Isn’t that what Penthouse Forum was for?

    • grrizzly

      Solzhenitsyn was horrible at sex scenes.

      • limey

        In Soviet Russia, sex scene writes you.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        4F’s
        /fin

    • straffinrun

      The only pronoun they use is “he”.

    • Gadfly

      The winners of the bad literary sex award are almost ALWAYS men. d00ds need to read some romance novels.

      Not surprising. Dudes tend to prefer the visual medium over the written medium for their smut.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    I’m off to the store, so I have milk for breakfast tomorrow.

    • The Other Kevin

      I feel like there’s an opportunity here to argue about what kind of milk we prefer. Whole being the correct answer.

      • Rebel Scum

        Almond.

      • Sean

        Coconut almond

      • Rebel Scum

        Regular, unsweetened. I’m a basic bitch and mostly put it in coffee.

      • Sean

        Coffee gets the heavy whipping cream and coconut oil.

        These seem to be gaining popularity. It’s been sold out a couple times lately.

      • Rebel Scum

        heavy whipping cream and coconut oil

        Good lord…Way to ruin a cup of coffee. But I guess I am about the bitter flavor. Same with tea. No sweetener.

      • Ted S.

        Coffee is best drunk black.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Damn Right Ted, for once,

      • DEG

        Coffee needs booze.

      • KOVIDKristen

        I hold the same opinions on milk as Ron Swanson

      • Fourscore

        Listen to Kevin, Kevin knows. There’s a time for skimpin’ and it ain’t on the milk.

    • EvilSheldon

      Heavy cream (or half and half at the very least) in the coffee. Otherwise, no dairy except as a cocktail ingredient.

      • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

        I’m also okay with whole-fat evap. Handy on camping trips etc.

      • EvilSheldon

        When I’m camping, I drink it black, and usually out of those Starbucks Via instant packets that I normally wouldn’t touch with Winston’s mom. Yes, I am kind of a gram weenie.

    • straffinrun

      I’m visualizing Brooks as the old guy at the end of Grapes of Wrath.

    • Suthenboy

      “Whole milk”, “low fat”, X%, etc are bs terms.

      It is either milk or not-milk.

      I often pour a tall glass of milk and spike it with cherry vanilla ice cream. On occasion, black walnut.

    • The Hyperbole

      Looks like Western, CPRM and Trashy had a three-way baby.

  47. Sean

    FFS, Wolf just shut down indoor dining. Douchebag.

    • juris imprudent

      If he was across the street and on fire, I’d sprint to the closest gas station and back to throw gasoline on him.

      • Gadfly

        Given the level of sense displayed by so many politicians lately, I’m surprised more of them haven’t died in freak gasoline fight accidents.

    • straffinrun

      Better to see you with, my dear.

    • Timeloose

      This is ridiculous we need to get this idiot out of office.

      By the way he is now COViD negative.

    • But Enough About My Pulsating, Geriatric Pecs

      Same here. I had fingers crossed that Alberta wouldn’t go the same route as all the other provinces, but Monkey See, Monkey Do is just. too. powerful. for our Glorious Technocratic Leaders to resist.

      There are officially no sane provinces left in Canada. And my nieces and nephews are going to spend their entire lives living in an authoritarian technocratic state.

      “Enjoy the decline,” I guess…

      • rhywun

        Yep, this shit is never going to end.

    • DEG

      Fuck.

    • creech

      Yep, Bank of Dad is open again as this means my son is again unemployed. This time, his employer may not make it through another closedown.

    • Nephilium

      Sorry to hear that Sean. Guess he wanted to get into the news cycle with Ohio.

      It’s a good thing the state governments all love fucking science.

  48. Rebel Scum

    Apparently someone asked governor Cunteface what the point of the curfew is. Response: “Nothing good happens after midnight.”

    Obvious irritating answer and current covid paradigm aside, That is objectively false. I have had many a good time after midnight. It is 2am that you have to look out for.

    • straffinrun

      Did he really say that? If he did and they don’t lamppost him for it I have no more respect for my countrymen.

    • KOVIDKristen

      I want out of here so bad. The real estate market is on fire…I would hope the developer that’s buying us out would push as hard as possible to get things moving. Show me the money!!!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Make em pay! then Run!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The other day I looked at our old place up there, and Zillow has it estimated at $25k over what we were paid for it in May.

        Back when we started the selling process, Zillow’s estimate was $30k under what we sold it for.

        Hot is an understatement.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I paid about 4k over the asking price on my my Mobile because, cool terms, but it’s worth 5k more in the last 2 months, don’t know why,
        I really want to make double payments when I can, so I can relax, it’s my only Big Bill,

      • Tulip

        I’m thinking of looking at property while in Florida.

      • Tulip

        A neighbor, with no addition and a pretty old kitchen, just sold for $520k. Apparently, someone heard it was coming on the market, knocked on the door and asked what they were asking. The neighbor said $519k. The buyer said we’ll pay $520k no inspection. So the neighbors took it. The buyer had missed on several houses in the market. I know another couple that got outbid on 4 houses in the neighborhood, finally got the fifth.

        This is insane, I have an addition and my house is less than 1400 sqft including the finished basement. There are no garages. The houses are poorly insulated and the lots are small. I like my house, but it isn’t worth that.

      • KOVIDKristen

        I should probably start attending the Redevelopment Committee meetings, but I hate those things. Condo boards are Satan’s joke on the living.

  49. straffinrun

    What would Jesus do during a pandemic?

    • The Hyperbole

      Sanctimonious hippie shit?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Weed and Hacky Sack?

      • The Hyperbole

        That and listening to Phish while doing that twirlly rhythmless dance thing.

      • rhywun

        *shudder*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Make more wine?

    • Rebel Scum

      Hide in a cave for a few days?

    • mrfamous

      “Blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo”

  50. Rebel Scum

    I cannot begin to describe my contempt for this lizard monster woman.

    The election was not close. There was no evidence of fraud. The states have certified the results.

    Yet Trump continues to try to overturn the election at the expense of our democracy.

    The emperor has no clothes.

    Republican electeds who continue to humor him have no spines.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Were you expecting something different from her?

  51. KOVIDKristen

    Just saw a commercial for some weight loss product, and all the “Before” people were in their undies, and they were all fully-clothed in the “After”. Something seems fishy…
    ?

    • Rebel Scum

      You are a racist if you do not exclusively view the world through the lens of skin pigment, comrade.

    • rhywun

      LOL

      bellylaugh goodfeel

      “I’ll take ‘Shit That Never Happened’ for a thousand, Alex.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let’s see…

      Ugly… check
      Female… check
      Sociology prof… check
      Born in DC… check
      Lives in California… check
      Self flagellating white… check
      Insufferable moralizing holier than thou cunt… check check check…

  52. Rebel Scum

    She’s baaaaack.

    Susan Rice, the former U.S. National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, will exit the board of Netflix to join the Biden administration.

    “We are grateful to Susan Rice for her many contributions on our board and congratulate her on her return to public service,” said Netflix chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings.

    A person familiar with the situation said Rice, who was appointed to the Netflix board of directors in March of 2018, will be leaving effective Jan. 20.

    As the President-elect continues to fill out his administration, he announced Thursday he has picked Rice to run the White House Domestic Policy Council, overseeing a large part of his agenda.

    The level of propaganda we are seeing with this “president-elect” nonsense really grinds my gears. And Susan Rice is a total cunte.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There’s the major reason why I refuse to subsidize Netflix anymore.

      It’s a slush fund for Obama and his cronies.

    • rhywun

      Who knew that what America has been clamoring for these last few years was the third Obama administration.

    • Tundra

      *wipes away a tear*

      That’s beautiful, Tulip!

    • zwak

      Talk about ta sausage party.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Double LOL, considering that Jesus was a Jew.

    • DEG

      Nice

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      And the blessings of the salt-cured meats were bestowed…

    • Nephilium

      A suburb where I grew up had a park where there was a Y intersection, and a park in the corner of the Y. They put up a nativity scene up in the park, with a cannon pointing through the back of the manger. A couple of years later, they finally started putting a canvas wrap around the bore of the cannon.

    • Sean

      ?

  53. Tundra

    Finally reading the lynx.

    The CIA getting cock-blocked is more than amazing.

    • Drake

      Their Director has been missing for a month. Something is going on there.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A functioning media might be asking questions.

    • westernsloper

      Ya, that is something new and interesting.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The more conspiracy minded among us might wonder if it had to do with the rumors of CIA security shooting military during a raid on Dominion servers in Germany….

    • rhywun

      “Eat shit, half of America.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        I remember when the MSM was calling on the Gore campaign to quit attempting to subvert the undisputed transition in 2000.

    • BakedPenguin

      “Nothing to see here, citizen.”

  54. Gustave Lytton

    Google: “Lets honor a black economist with a doodle”

    “Good idea! How about Prof Walter Williams, who recently died? Let’s have a long dead one with a now questionable model! 41 years is a nice round number and often celebrated as an anniversary.”

  55. Gustave Lytton

    https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/12/hillsboro-launches-hilight-aspiring-to-build-oregons-largest-city-run-internet-service.html

    Public telecommunications networks have a spotty track record in Oregon and elsewhere, with local governments struggling to keep up with evolving technology and to overcome competition from well-financed corporate rivals.

    Up is down. Yeah, poor municipal networks. Often poorly planned and operated, ignoring all sorts of issues, self dealing with sibling agencies, and a host of advantages from taxing to bonding. Sadly, the reporter is usually half decent on business news but writes this up as if Goliath was the underdog.

  56. Shpip

    Delta IV-heavy heading up at 8:09 EST.

  57. Tulip

    Happy note. I’ve been stressed out because of attending a class plus trying to get my regular work done plus some end of year stuff I need to do before going to Florida. Today, my neighbor brought me homemade French onion soup. The bread and cheese were packaged separately with a little note with instructions. It is so good, and so, so nice to have something good that I didn’t have to make.

    • BakedPenguin

      Good to hear, Tulip. Well made onion soup is a balm for the soul.

      If you get time, let me know your approximate itinerary. Also, if you know where in FL you might want to buy land in (and its’ purpose, if any but to put a house on), pls email me. My brother has been looking for land in semi-rural & rural areas of N. Central Florida.

      • Tulip

        Will do!