Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice.
The difference being, our press had to conquer Orange Man.
89,000 household have left San Francisco since March.
Hewlett Packard moves global headquarters from CA to TX.
Hell hath no fury like a neocon scorned.
These are the heroes this world needs in these trying times.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
There is apparently a new “monolith”. How can we convince people they will be immune to the plague if they make a pilgrimage to a Holy magical Monolith?
Then, we can erect hundreds of them.
Its origin and purpose still a total mystery.
Art installation and a pretty damn clever one at that.
We’ll face them all inward towards the land! Then topple them in frustration when the gods refuse to answer our prayers. Later generations will propose the idea that it was all an elaborate social experiment/prank perpetrated by bored Ancient Alien undergrad students.
When I heard about that it really made me sad; a whole culture is so disillusioned by foreign visitors causing violence and plagues that they not only stopped believing in their gods, they cast them down.
Does it require a virgin sacrifice?
Having fallen off the fast-food radar for nearly a decade, The McRib — which is made of seasoned boneless pork, barbecue sauce, onions and pickles on a bun — makes its triumphant return to the Golden Arches on December 2.
I liked them as a kid, and will probably eat one for nostalgia’s sake this month, but now I find the sauce much too sweet. I’ll scrape most of it off and dose the thing with some Louisiana hot sauce and chomp away.
Meh. Having worked at McDonald’s for several years back in the 90’s, I’ll take a hard pass on eating their food.
Having talked to several people that worked there, I have been told that the “special sauce” on Big Macs is appropriately named…
Never witnessed that (thankfully), and I’m sure that the rest of the fast food/quick service places aren’t any better. Take low paid teenagers who don’t really care, not much oversight, huge predictable rushes, and long boring lulls you’ll wind up with the same things. I will give credit to Chick-Fil-A though, their staff is actually pleasant the majority of the time, and they seem less likely to mess up orders.
Where I live the staff at most fast food places are remarkably nice and pleasant. It helps that they pay way over minimum wage already.
Yep. Primarily Sikh kids up here. Have you ever met a Sikh Matriarch? They can be terrifying…
Where I live, fast food staffs are remarkably nice and pleasant. It helps that they are paid way over minimum wage.
Squirrels also work at these places. Also, nice.
This was over 20 years ago, when I started, the initial wage was minimum wage. They eventually moved up the starting wage, and in a moment of kindness bumped all of us who had been there for a while up to the new starting wage.
There was quite a bit of turnover in the next couple of weeks.
30 years ago, the suburban McDs and etc paid minimum but the inner city ones paid significantly more.
As I understand it, the suburban ones are catching up.
The Indian kids are out-working the white ones. The blandies are playing video games or tik tok and the others are out there hustling for Baba Yaga.
Our school had its own version of the McRib and it was better. I know that sounds like crazy talk.
As a kid, I tried really hard to like them, and did, EXCEPT that every single one of them had a piece of gristle in it. So that’s the one thing I think about with McRibs.
Valentina > Frank’s > Louisiana
Change my mind.
No love for Crystal?
You’ve got the arrows pointing in the wrong direction.
Cholula >>>>>Valentina et al.
I do love me a Shamrock Shake in March, tho.
Pretty great if you “Irish” it up.
“Ninety one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty five perfecent for scientific journals,” reads the working paper’s abstract. “The negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with positive scientific developments including school re-openings and vaccine trials. Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience.”
No shit, Shirley.
Fear sells, we’re all buying.
I’m not.
“Back in line, peasant!”
You have plenty of family and friends that are though, right? They’ll work on you if the media won’t.
Lol.
They are afraid to even bring it up with me.
Brother?
Family and friends you can set boundaries with. “If you start bringing up politics again, I’m walking out the fucking door.”
The media has no such sense of restraint.
My parents must have done something right. I have several siblings of different political leanings living in different areas, and we all agree, including my green party sister, that the Covid is mostly theater.
Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice.
No evidence! UNSUBSTANTIATED!!11!!!
You didn’t read what Binnall had to say did you, e.g. We have a whistleblower that came forward and told us about a postal meeting where they told people to deliver ballots to undeliverable addresses.
We will see what actually gets filed with a court, and maybe we can compare that to what she told the media.
Right on cue!
We’ll see what they actually file, won’t we?
Morning, Banjos.
Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice.
Without evidence, Trump team claims that 40,000 people in NV voted twice – CNN
I can’t, in good conscious, continue to cover these baseless claims. – Cavuto
It’s Keymasters and Gatekeepers all the way down.
Mmmmm. Sigourney Weaver.
Flat bum but okay.
Front checks out.
/GalaxyQuest
Speaking of unrelenting negativity and panicmongering, the Bloombergers are on my teevee right now clucking and squawking about the likelihood of people being duped into letting their guard down by stories about vaccines.
Be afraid, America. Be very very afraid! The sky is still falling.
mornin’
I’m present and accounted for.
Current titty status = calm
Research shows U.S. media outlets have covered the coronavirus pandemic far more negatively than international media sources, irrespective of any positive developments on vaccines or declining case numbers.
Cases? We got so many cases you don’t even want to leave your house. And a hundred bajillion Americans are dead. No I don’t care that literally every person that tests positive before or after death is being counted as a covid death. Take your anti-science nonsense somewhere else, Trumpster.
Just the other day CNN had breaking news that China lied about the Wuhan Flu.
Breaking News: Communists are notorious liars.
A few years back I did a lot of running around the midwest with a business partner who would only stop at McDonalds for lunch. I don’t know why or how he could stand it; I never found anything at that place that didn’t initiate the dry heaves. The chicken nuggets were tolerable, barely.
McDonalds is great if you are a kid. Adults eat Wendy.
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
Solo job?
You’re crazy but I’ll you to amaze me
Stay the hell away from my Hennessy, dammit.
I wish it was your avatar saying that.
Don’t like my oatmeal lumpy though
Cant beat McDonalds strawberry shakes.
Stephenson does address that back in Snow Crash re: the rise of the Franchises.
Granted a bit different now than the late 80s, but there is something to be said for consistency (food and pricing) – esp late at night in the middle of nowhere – vs the unknown depending on your mood/circumstances.
” business partner who would only stop at McDonalds for lunch.”
Consistency. No surprises. Probably won’t get the e. coli from an unknown joint.
I’m not saying it’s right (I like trying new places) but at least it’s an ethos.
The chicken nuggets were tolerable, barely.
It’s all about that milkshake and fries. But I only eat McD’s these days if there is no alternative.
McDonalds is great if you are a kid. Adults eat Wendy.
Wendy’s is my Chick-fil-a alternative if Chick-fil-a is not available.
Bacon mushroom melt and then days of pain. Only on limited offer here, though.
This reminds me of a story from childhood. My family was travelling and we were trying to find a place to eat. My mother and I kept pointing out chain restaurants we could stop at; Chili’s, Outback, etc. My father refuses though. He sold food to restaurants for a living, and all of his customers were independent owner operators, so he hated the idea of chain restaurants.
After driving around for 20 minutes with no luck, he pulls into a McDonald’s and we get our dinner there. When I pointed out the irony he said “mcdonald’s isn’t a chain. It’s fast food.” Still cracks me up to this day.
One of my husband’s grandfathers would insist on getting McDonalds whenever he was having trouble pooping. I hadn’t been a fan of the place before that, but now the association between constipation and McDonalds is permanently in my head.
I thought that was Taco Bell’s specialty?
Burger King onion rings. Roto-Rooters we used to call them.
There wasn’t a Taco Bell in the town he lived in. Place was so small and rural, I actually saw people on horses in the car stalls at the Sonic (the one fast food joint outside of McDonald’s).
I loved Sonic’s steak and egg burrito when it was available.
I hadn’t set foot in a McDonald’s for a decade or two – but now with two kids in grade school it comes up from time to time.
I have found that I can get the Big Mac set – with a salad as the side item and a hot coffee as the drink. Health-wise it isn’t so bad.
McDouble is the “cheapest and most nutritious food in human history”
Speaking of crack business journalism- the chick has asked a couple of times, now, about companies which are burning giant piles of cash in a desperate attempt to simply keep their doors open. “When will this become UNSUSTAINABLE?”
It’s unsustainable right now, you blabbering ninny.
Speaking of that…
Cleveland restaurant owners issue emotional plea for federal help
Sure, instead of letting you earn your money, please, take mine through taxes!
We can’t just go back to the crazy days of February. This is only a temporary shut down.
I do have some sympathy for Chrostowski though, his main restaurant (Edwins) hires former inmates primarily, and trains them to work in the high end restaurant business. They’ve since expanded into a bakery and a butcher shop (which just opened a couple months back). The demand for federal bailouts cools that sympathy quite a bit.
We went out last night to sustain one of our favorite places – yummy Thai food.
CDC shortens recommended quarantine time from 14 days to as few as seven in hopes of boosting compliance
I read this five times and then my eye started twitching. These are not serious people. It is also the the magical cloth mask and 6′ distancing. It is all horseshit.
“We said pretty please, and the virus agreed to shorten its incubation time”
Well, they think they got rid of orange man, and they too are desperate to end the charade since they are now worried the damage they did peddling all the doom & gloom to get rid of bad orange Hitler might be insurmountable.
To be fair, you need to wear a BLM branded mask for the second week to make sure that you don’t transmit any Rona. That is proven SCIENCE!
CDC, Fauci, et al just make me think of “Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?”
That and “BURN HER ANYWAY!!!”
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx. I read the San Francisco one pretty thoroughly, but I must have missed the motivating factors of rampant crime, homelessness and shit-piles as reasons people are leaving.
The quarantine one is actually pretty funny. The public have largely clued in on the hoax, so the fuckwits will continue to game the numbers trying to scare people back into submission. It won’t work, of course, so eventually we’ll see 3 day quarantines…
And still zero guidance about Vitamin D, obesity, diabetes, etc. etc. etc.
Hoax.
Nice musical selection today. That’s a really solid album, start to finish.
Make it a groovy day, people!
Don’t forget the used needles obstacle courses too Tundra.
SF goes out of it’s way to keep out large chains in favor of mom and pop stores, makes theft of under $1,000 a day a non-crime and does it’s best to Jack rents into the stratosphere…yeah that is sustainable in an indefinite lockdown.
“The public have largely clued in on the hoax”
Can you send some of that up here across the border? Pretty please?
Let’s play spot the “trends.”
I get it. It’s flu season here.
in hopes of boosting compliance
“Pretty pleeeeze? We’ll go get ice cream, afterwards, if you’re good.”
As many as 89,000 households have left San Francisco since March, the latest sign of an exodus spurred by the pandemic
Uh huh…
Also, this is some racist white-flight, I’m sure.
Tech-bros.
Haven’t the true believers resisted their gentrifuhkashun this whole time? Well, now they’re getting their wish. Utopia to follow.
Nah, bla-pee-pole already fled to Oakland. That was in the first part of the century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Black_Man_in_San_Francisco
Tequila Bar In England Registers To Become A Church So It Can Re-Open
So they have the opposite made-up baseless rules as us?
I’m wondering if that Staten Island bar will notice this story, and become a church.
Won’t that get them shut down harder in NY?
Nah, SCOTUS slapped that shit down.
The reason? Well apparently because “beards + McRib sauce don’t mix” — and because McDonald’s has a worthy cause in mind.
Beards and BBQ is a recipe for a hairy situation. I mean, it can get really sticky.
“beards + McRib sauce don’t mix”
Only if you’re a pig about it
And still zero guidance about Vitamin D, obesity, diabetes, etc. etc. etc.
pfffft. That stuff is hard, and nobody sees you do it.
Put the
swastikamask on. Declare your obeisance to the collective, for all to see.Since the afternoon links, I have had 2525 stuck in my head.
[I know how to get stuck songs out, but haven’t felt the need yet, coming soon]
“If Man is still alive…” The #1 song from my birth year was “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. I’ve mentioned this before but the Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan led directly to me typing here. Mother was a huge Paul fan and Dad got lucky that night. I did the math.
That’s adorable. I have all my mom’s old Beatles albums; they’re covered in 1960s teenaged girl graffiti – “Ringo is the gearmost living end!”
Also, before there was Chicken Lady, there was Natalie Wingneck, the first nursery school teacher raised by geese.
Oh nice I’m on at the same time as you and responding promptly so I can finally be certain that you saw me say “Happy Birthday!” ? It’s back there somewhere in the comments on the correct day, I swear!
Thank you very much. Also, I love, love, LOVE Cleopatra 2525.
I swear you seem to get/like all of the music and shows that I post. I wish I’d known you when I was still in NYC.
Holy shit. I’ve only seen that once and it must have been forty years ago! Catherine O’Hara was lovely even though they always down-played her beauty for laffs.
My Mom used to always talk about the “Heidi game”, where they interrupted the end of the NFL game that was running long to show the movie Heidi, not showing a big comeback and dramatic finish. This led to changes in how sports are televised.
A few years ago, I realized that game was almost exactly 9 months before I was born.
I guess they found that Heidi wasn’t that engrossing a film.
“Honey, football is over, I’m drunk and there is a little Swedish gal on the TV. Put on them lederhosen, I’m gonna climb the Alps!”
I was just a kid and was watching the game. That shit really pissed me off as I was a huge Raiders fan.
Did anyone ever watch this classic tale of female empowerment?
In the days before widespread internet pron a teenager had to be resourceful ?
So you’re a youngin round these parts too? Must be just a shade younger than me, I think that started airing when I was too busy working and my VCR was already using up both timers to record Buffy and S Club 7.
Busy fellow.
Now that I look at it I actually was not a teenager when it was on but I guess I still had the sex drive of one ?. I’m a ’77 birthday.
It’s always a good day when you had to do a bulk phone job (delete/rebuild) the night before, and 30 minutes into the group’s shift there’s been no reports of problems yet.
“What’s the process for reporting a problem?”
“Call from an official phone to…”
“But the phones aren’t working.”
One of the places I worked at my manager kept asking me why I worked most of my tickets through e-mail. I pointed out that they were for phone issues (and the people I was supporting were generally in areas with spotty cell reception, and no work provided cells).
These phones were all for WFH people (as most people are now), and they’ve got work cells and e-mail.
I logged in an hour early because I misremembered their start time and wanted to be ready in case of any issues.
A “bulk phone-job” sounds like the sticky situation referenced above.
I’ve never fucked a phone, but I’ll try anything once
Holy shit. The money shot:
“Overall, we are unable to explain the variation in negativity with political affiliation of an outlet’s audience, or U.S. case count changes, but we do find that U.S. readers demand negative stories,” the authors wrote. “We conclude that the CDC’ implicit ‘warning label’ against consuming too much U.S. COVID-19 media may be warranted.”
Readers demand?
Fuck off, you lying scumbags.
Honestly, I think that might be accurate. The Branch Covidians in my world seem to really dig the terrifying news.
Since they have no personal risk, medically or financially, of course.
Doom scrolling.
My own pet theory is that negative, demoralizing news stories put media consumers in a frame of mind receptive to advertising.
Get people depressed enough, and they’ll start buying shit to try and lift themselves out of the gray doldrums of their existence.
If you can’t see the fnords, they can’t eat you!
It’s sad how much more that book makes sense, compared to high school…
I agree with this. There’s no tv in our home, so when we go to a hotel or some other place with regular tv, my wife and I are like “ What planet are we on?” Between the depressing snd negative news, the weird pharmaceutical ads, the hero worship of cops, firemen, emt, soldiers, etc and the phony sincerity and the overwrought sentimenality… mass media in the US perpetuates a distorted view of people, the nation and the world. It’s some weird shit. Thank god I don’t participate in 98% of it.
Remember, U.S. media has way fewer (domestic) consumers than it has in the past or that foreign media has. Apparently CNN has lots of international consumers and has somehow become the flagship station of U.S. television news media, but I don’t know how much their demand factors into the network’s choices and policies.
So, yes, I’d believe their consumers demand it. Just bear in mind that their consumers are, in practice, a small slice of the country.
You are just now realizing this? ///diversity-hire
Sotomayor says she worried Obama didn’t actually want her on bench just had her on Supreme Court short list “for show”
+1 self-described ( ! ) wise Latina
Wisest thing she’s ever said.
Wisest thing she’s ever said.
Partisanship aside, have you ever seen her hands? They resemble catcher’s mitts. How the hell does she wield a pen?
Learn to code – if you’re Indian.
Big tech spent the entire campaign censoring, insulting, and shitting on Republicans (and maybe helping rig the vote against them). Much of Trump’s success was a result of him picking up blue-collar voters the Democrats abandoned.
So… Republicans in the Senate just unanimously voted to let big tech bring in unlimited numbers of foreign indentured servants.
Cucks.
Screwing over 3rd world immigrants to own the libs
Screwing anyone necessary for bribes and campaign contributions.
They’re allowing Desi sex workers to obtain visas now?
Your Desi aunty wants you to make her happy Not Adahn!
You make it sound like getting rid of arbitrary government restrictions on private mutually agreed upon voluntary employment relationships is a bad thing. You do know this is an allegedly libertarian site, yeah?
Except that’s a misrepresentation of what’s happening here.
The indenture is caused by the terms of the government program effectively trapping the person in poor working conditions because any loss of the post gets them tossed back to india. Removing the government market distortion by shutting down the program would be the appropriate response, not raising the number of indentured servants permitted.
I didn’t misrepresent what is going on at all. You are completely correct that these visas tamper with the employer-employee relationship by giving the employer far more power over the employee than a citizen of the U.S. would get. I completely agree that we should get rid of these restrictions to employment between consenting adults.
My point is that the existing visa program is still a considerably less shitty deal for a would be tech worker in India (or elsewhere) than being trapped in India (or elsewhere). If it wasn’t, why would these workers take this deal? So, it is an incremental improvement of liberty to get rid of arbitrary restrictions on the number of these visas, even if we both would prefer getting rid of the onerous restrictions for employees who do come here on visas.
Item #345,760 of Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Good
Today in hypocritical cuntiness:
Austin Mayor Flew Private To Cabo San Lucas Where He Filmed Himself Telling Citizens To ‘Stay Home’
I know, I know. Some animals are more equal than others.
Huxly would was not an instruction manual!
“We’re all in this together!”
Somebody remind me of this little vignette when Adler gets reelected.
A recurring feature of my FB feed for my proggie friends is a tale of egregious govt misbehavior under their tagline of “govt – just what we all do together”.
Malice weighs in.
To be taken with a grain of salt, but I think anything is possible at this point.
https://nationalfile.com/the-kraken-retired-general-says-us-military-intel-group-nicknamed-kraken-seized-dominion-servers-in-germany/
Where’d you get that photo of me? I thought I had it expunged from the internet.
I haven’t used the IASIP mailroom meme since the Epstein situation came to light. If it doesn’t involve aliens it’s plausible.
Shoot-outs and servers raids are still more plausible than the story about the election I’m supposed to swallow from the mainstream media.
Should have been The Hyperbole’s Big Board. You’re slipping, Swiss.
They better be able to produce those servers in court or a bunch of people are going to have egg on their faces. This should be fun.
And how is Gina?
The interesting thing about this is that Powell confirmed there was a raid on a server in Germany. And their military analyst presented evidence during testimony that packets of data were traveling from tabulating machines to a server in Germany.
I don’t know about CIA or military involvement in the raid, but a server in Germany receiving election data is a central part of the lawsuits and is backed up by evidence showing that transmission from counting machines in the US.
Well speaking of Powell (and being unhinged)…
You twist, move goal posts, steal bases, and flat out fabricate anything that anyone replies to you. I won’t be wasting my time anymore if you are unwilling to discuss the topic in good faith.
So you agree with them that Republicans should just hand two Senate seats to the Democrats all for the greater glory of the Donald?
a grain of salt?
A GRAIN? I could lick from one end of Bonneville to the other and that STILL wouldn’t be enough.
‘Kraken’ organization, the 305 Military Intelligence Battalion
This is a “thing”?
told her that “the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran” to manipulate the election.
*Adjusts tinfoil*
I really hope this doesn’t flop. And I hope no soldiers were actually killed.
The helicopter “crash” in Egypt was cover for dead soldiers.
* adds more tinfoil *
So, Gina Haspel is really dead? Or is the the real Schrodinger’s Cat and we can never really know for sure?
It becomes definite once you open the box.
Honestly, I think that might be accurate. The Branch Covidians in my world seem to really dig the terrifying news.
I suppose that could be true, to some extent. It reinforces their delusions of bravery under fire and heroic sacrifice. in the face of certain death.
McDonald’s recipe book. The McRib is on p17. Be warned this was from a manager who was working when the McRib was being ironed out, so it may not be the recipe being used now.
But the real prize are the McD’s french fries.
Yeah, no.
That has to be a joke à la 4CHAN
You don’t have to eat it for every meal, but C’mon Man! The good french fries.
Also, I’m calling BS on the writer’s claim that McD’s has some special mix of oil to fry stuff in. I used to work for a company that delivers oil to McD’s for frying. The company delivers the same oil to Burger King and a bunch of other joints.
Might have been a special blend back in the day when they were using beef tallow, but not anymore.
Fun Fact: The used oil that was picked up from the restaurants was usually sold to poultry farmers who would mix it with the birds feed to really fatten those chickens/turkeys up.
Back when I was working there, it was pure vegetable oil that came in 3 gallon jugs (if memory serves correctly). The stuff that came to us was branded with the McDonald’s logo (as was pretty much everything). I can tell you that a suburban McDonald’s will go through a literal ton of fries (2,000 pounds) in a five day period.
Those were called JIB’s (Jug in a Box).
The company I worked for Restaurant Technolgies would install two big tanks behind the store. One was for clean oil and the other for used oil. A pump was put between the fryers and those tanks. So the teen-age kid only had to push a button and all the old oil would be replaced with new oil.
RTI’s service cost you more than simply buying oil yourself, but you didn’t have to deal with kids never changing oil (or when they did having accidents) and the old oil was disposed of.
We had one guy who was responsible for changing the oil on the fryers. I do remember needing to clean the grease traps on the grills and dump that sludge into the grease tank out back.
Thanks… I had forgotten about that part of the job.
My first restaurant job (14 year old dish-monkey) had a special needs fellow working pots and pans; he also had to empty the fryers (SW Florida seafood place). As he would walk the series of 5 gallon stock pots of hot oil out to the grease bin, the asshole line cooks would toss pieces of ice cubes into the oil to make it spatter. Sigh… people are dicks.
You just made Festus cry. I worked as an assistant or “programmer” with adult disabled people in a previous life. That is unconscionable. Hopefully that shit gets caught on camera nowadays. We had more than one and less than a dozen clients arrive from the big institutions with anal bleeding. These folks were in various states of physical duress so it’s not like they were leaving their wheelchairs and beds at night to have a retard rave. Some people are pure fucking evil. I lasted two years before it broke me and then went out to cut down trees for a living. Never again.
The special oil was indeed back in the beef tallow era. It was a proprietary blend of vegetable oil and tallow called Formula 47 developed under Ray Kroc. They stopped using it in 1990 when some busybody rich guy harangued them to the point that they gave up.
CSPI, probably. ¡The chostelerol!!11!!!
Actually, in this case they weren’t the culprits. It was a guy named Phil Sokoloff, a multimillionaire who had a heart attack and it spurred him to become America’s anti-frying scold.
A perfectly cromulent recipe. The sugarwater rinse is to darken the Maillard reaction.
Culver’s fries > Wendy’s fries > McDonald’s fries
Culvers == overpriced hash
*snaps fingers*
I’m worth it.
Can’t get a Reuben sandwich or cheese curds at any other fast food joint.
I make my own Reubens. I like onion rings and Sonic’s are better.
Sonic is one of the few things I miss about Kansas.
Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice.
Lemme guess–they all voted Jo Jorgenson right?
No, I think they voted Xi.
This occurred to me, a little while ago:
What we need is the functional equivalent of the sort of deeply suspicious short sellers who shred the financial reports of over-hyped companies, who will dig into the plague models and ruthlessly taunt the fearmongers over the illogic of their nonsensical “prescriptions”.
Oooh! Nice!
Can’t 4Chan do that?
Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice. –
FTA: “”We have a whistleblower that came forward and told us about a postal meeting where they told people to deliver ballots to undeliverable addresses,” said Binnall. “That resulted in ballots being strewn all over, littered across Las Vegas…The post office is refusing to allow those people involved in that to be deposed.””
That’s not evidence of “real voter fraud”, as Binnall was ostensibly offering. Even a USPS employee email titled IMPORTANT MEETING RE: BALLOT DELIVERY would be evidence of voter fraud. To show evidence of voter fraud, they’d also need to show the strewn ballots were collected and used for voting. They’d also have to explain how the election office is involved in the conspiracy, as NV law requires that all signatures on mail-in ballots be compared with the one on file.
In some ways, this is similar to the Melissa Carone testimony a couple days ago, which came to my attention when it was announced as blockbuster news in right-wing media. Yet the judge ruled on her affidavit on November 13, which was widely covered. So two days ago Trump trotted out a re-tread witness who’d already had her testimony considered.
The Don is offering thin gruel, and people keep giving him money in return. As long as he’s raking in more than the legal team costs, why stop ladling it out?
Mornin’ Banjos! That song takes me back! I saw that tour in Montreal 1979 at Jarry Parc. The crush at the gates was so bad that several dozen fans had to be carted away from heat exhaustion. In a documentary that I watched later there was a helicopter shot of the crowd trying to get into the stadium and then they panned over a couple of hundred yards and the band was playing a little soccer all by their lonesome selves. I was 14 and drunk for probably the 2nd or 3rd time, trying to protect the 24 of Molson that I had just bought from the charcuterie. If you’ve never been to Montreal in July let me tell you that swamp-ass hot and humid is a thing. Best song off their worst album but thanks for the memories! So vivid that I can almost smell them.
-11 The Who
That concert ended “festival seating” in Cincinnati, and maybe the state.
Oh, that was 41 years ago today.
You mean general admission seating? Nope. Still a pretty common thing.
I still remember the concert back in 1994 (Green Day, judge all you want, it was $5) which had a turf fight at Blossom Music Center. The rain the next couple of days led to some very upset orchestra guests who had nothing but mud to put their blankets and chairs on.
Nobody died but people did get fucked up. It was festival seating and BYOB. I saw one chick stand up and proclaim “Everybody Dance!” When a random beer bottle knocked her out cold. I was 14. My eyes were saucers at that point.
I remember that, I knew people who went to that concert. I didn’t go as I was not a big Who fan at that time.
‘Sup, glibbies?
I didn’t sleep for shot last night.I was in bed when The People’s Republic of California decided to shut off the power “ just in case” high winds blow a branch onto a power line and sparks a fire.
So no electricity at all for ??? How long to prevent the chance of a power cable short.
Super to know that all the fees and taxes we pay for power grid strengthening were completely raided for projects other than bolstering the grid.
And California pols wonder why people and companies leave…
So I couldn’t sleep because there is no power to my CPAP machine. No bueno.
Have some covfefe till they cut it back on? I’ve been up since 2 thanks to my “day” off.
Unfortunately, that would do me in too. Sorry.
Back when I worked for a power company, that was a huge no no as many people depend on even more critical medical devices.
Bolstering the grid? Just clearing the brush would be a good start.
There might be an endangered species in there – you can’t disturb it’s habitat (that will eventually disappear in a conflagration that has been part of the natural cycle for eons).
But you got some nice windmills.
Phrasing?
Yikes that sounds awful Hayek.
Super to know that all the fees and taxes we pay for power grid strengthening were completely raided for projects other than bolstering the grid
Did it make you think you were back in Minnesoda? Like how we use gas taxes to build bikeways and pedestrian stuff everywhere.
I worried about your area when I saw that warning. Generator time?
I would imagine that the CA Air Resources Board has eliminated that option. Peasants don’t need their own source of electricity – they will enjoy the ration generously allotted them by the state.
You need to get an adaptor for your Tesla.
Baseball birthdays are awful today: Wayne Garrett? Clay Dalrymple?
“Clay Dalrymple” is a hell of a name. Sounds like someone Ayn would have dreamed up.
He went 2 for 2 in the 1969 WS vs the Mets.
LA mayor is asshoe.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti:
“It’s time to cancel everything.”
Sure, instead of letting you earn your money, please, take mine through taxes!
Replacing wealth creation with debt has proven, throughout the ages, to be the best policy for long term economic success.
Especially if you are part on the nomenklatura, with secure off shore bank accounts.
The secure offshore bank accounts trick works fine if you are looting Argentina or Zimbabwe. I have a sneaking suspicion it ends in tears when you loot the engine that drives the world.
What this phenomenon is referred to is definitely a regional thing.
https://archive.li/6Gjtk
I didn’t realize until I left NM that not everyone called it THO. I’ve now heard Bullets in Your Bra, Nippin’, Headlights among others. What do you call it?
Hi-Beams
But here in SW Ohio THO works, too.
Citation
(but not from Ohio)
Would.
#MeToo despite her being far below my weight class.
High beams.
puppy dog noses
#32 is really pretty.
Lovely.
I like 13 as well.
What’s a normal looking woman doing in a Chive gallery?
Roofied.
4 27 32
Glass cutters, Tokyo tune in knobs, high beams, etc.
#4 sets off my Dad-Gar! What is she? 14?
I’ve got a lot of article ideas floating in my head and not enough time to write them all so here is a short one that works as a comment:
The GOP is focused on the wrong fraud. This election was “stolen” but not in the way they are talking about. They are focused on stories of MI pukes raiding a server like they were James bond, and trying to prove something unprovable by design. I appreciate them fighting it because I think they may be able to produce evidence that election fraud is more widespread than people like to believe.
But they are not focused on the big problem. The media blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop. That was more verified that the fraud claims and, some polls have suggested a large portion of people who didn’t know about the emails would not have voted for Biden.
The left spent 4 years making sure they didn’t repeat 2016. The GOP needs to spend the next 4 on giving the coup de grace to the corporate media, making sure far less people trust them as the only news source.
The GOP needs to spend the next 4 on giving the coup de grace to the corporate media, making sure far less people trust them as the only news source.
That’s a worthy goal, but accomplishing it is the tricky part.
Too good not to share:
The Libertarian Path to Democrat One-Party Rule
Lots of butt-hurt in the article, but especially the comments.
Enjoy!
If all of the Perdue voters had voted for Hazel, there would be no runoff.
The premise that all LP voters would vote Republican otherwise is flawed to say the least. They’d get sixty percent or so of those tops if the LP didn’t exist. Maybe they should court us instead of bitching about not getting our votes and blaming us for what we largely consider to be anathema.
Politicians are ENTITLED to our votes – don’t you get any funny ideas in your head, peasant.
The LP vote is a protest vote. It’s as close to “none of the above” as you’re gonna get. As in, “neither of you deserve my vote”.
If the premise is that all LP voters will vote Republican in the GA runoff elections, then we can look forward to both seats going to the Republican.
“Libertarians may be the reason that, come January 20, Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress”
The GOP giving up on their boys in Georgia? They should be the favorites in those Races.
Exactly, especially with more careful scrutiny of voting. Any fraud, if it existed, will be stopped (or hidden better).
Why would you think it would be stopped or hidden better? They are already getting away with the fraud as is, no need to change.
Over at Parler, they are actually claiming that Sidney Powell and one of her sidekicks are telling people to not vote in the GA runoffs.
Things are just so crazy now, you can no longer tell real news from The Bee. Even those of us who are well versed in sarcasm and derp are now confused.
Somehow, the LP has a stronger effect on this election despite getting 1/3 as many votes as the previous election.
Reason troll confirmed.
God-fearing libertarian
There are a number of us here. Although I don’t think fear is the right word, why would I need to fear God?
Yeah. Not that the stereotype of libertine libertarians doesn’t have some basis, there are a lot of believing liberty lovers.
Timor domini initium sapientiae.
The story of Job covers that.
It worked out for Job in the end. Kinda sucks to have been one of his first round of kids.
I mean, he’s an asshole but he’s not wrong…
“least principled segment of society. ”
I see, vote for whoever gives team power is the ugly valid principle in their mind.
“Every one of them I know claim to vote their “conscience” (or principle, as the author put it), which would be reasonable were that conscience not a blindfold. ”
This is just funny. Stay mad.
They see us as “unprincipled” because we refuse to choose a team. In their world view there is only red or blue. Anything else is unmoored abandon.
Gibberish? Or is xe completely unable to see what a libertarian principle or conscience might be?
Too stupid for me, I’m done right there.
Seeing what the GOP actually does, his claim seems dubious. The GOP and Dems split the socialist vote every election and still win them all.
That guy is the very embodiment of a California Republican.
Damn it man… now my brain is trying to work out something along the lines of:
He is the very model of a Western coast Republican
His district has been built out just as best as he can…
You can tell a district designed for a California Republican, it has no spine.
None of that is true. Over at TOS, the most real libertarian site of all, they all voted for democrats, as usual, with the rare LP vote mixed in. So there you have it, the JoJo vote would have gone to Biden.
Pshaw! That Trumpalo site is so raceist that they purged all their WoCs!
That sounds remarkably like Dems in ’16 and the butt hurt over the greens.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/owner-nyc-bar-arrested-days-after-declaring-autonomous-zone-dodge-pandemic-restrictions
Follow up to a link posted a few days ago
I guess we now know the answer about cops and freedom, huh?
It always amazes me that conservatives claim to be for freedom while at the same time being ardent supporters of the King’s Men. How can they not see the contradiction?
Conservatives (or Republicans at least) also claim to be for smaller govt.
He should have gone with a speak-easy. Little slot in the door and customers have to know the password.
Getting capped for perjury is no joke and then there are the attendant ripples personally and professionally for being branded a liar and a felon for the rest of your life. I think there is a big “something” here but you’ve hitched your oxen to a particular plow and won’t be bothered to switch from a spade to a mower.
Worth reposting from last night:
https://archive.li/p8UKa
“Americans are suffering from a ‘delusional psychosis,’ according to Los Angeles child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald[…]’there is a delusional psychosis that has taken over where people are impervious to rational thinking. They don’t want to give up the mask, they don’t want to give up the social distancing,’ he said. ‘[People] are impervious to reason, to logic, to education at this point. They are psychotically managed by their fear.’”
I don’t know about this. I think it’s more about Dems making their political team part of their identity. That does include fear, but only because they are told to fear as Dem talking points.
I suspect most non-Dems wear masks because they are required by businesses due to gov decree (which is it’s own problem).
The Democrats have become End-of-Days cultists.
The Republicans pull the same schtick when it comes to security issues, but the Democrats have made it even more existential with climate, COVID, and White Supremacy.
Thought experiment:
If you could press a magic button that would instantly and permanently transform all masks everywhere into masks imprinted with the Nazi party symbol, do you think the “science” on masks would suddenly “evolve”, and they would be declared ineffective against viruses?
Excellent.
Thank you for that one.
Everything is proceeding according to plan then.
Maybe but it’s also become politicized and professing to certain measures, or against them for that matter, shows that you’re part of the right tribe.
Banjos giving us some maneki neko. Just when I thought I didn’t need you guys cuz I’m listening to Siouxie and The Banshees and got 13 likes on my last twitter post. Pulling me back in.
dear Straffin…
In this state of mind, only vulgarities are entering my mind.
Fine. Have some Terri Nunn.
That’ll work. Better than the Cake I had playing. That guy can shave his goatee with my wife’s razor. Maybe then he’ll let the bassist get his due.
About a month ago my whole family and I had to do the Corona quarantine thing. We did cancel some things, but ended up cutting it about 3 days short. Mrs. TOK even did some traveling in that time. I didn’t feel bad about that. I looked up the stats, and if you’re going to get symptoms, it will most likely be 5-6 days after exposure. Only 2% of people who had symptoms got them after the 12th day. As we’ve discussed here, everything is about risk management. People in general are bad at that, and it’s worse when the media is overwhelmingly showing bad news.
Hero.
Comptroller of Erie County, N.Y., Blocks Health Department from Collecting COVID Fines
Fuck yeah.
Nice. We are starting to see more push back.
That quote doesn’t match the headline. She’s just taking the money herself.
“Trump’s legal team submit evidence that 40,000 people in Nevada voted twice.”
I see that once again there is zero evidence of any fraud.
Careful – you’ll end up with me on the outs as part of the unfaithful.
That was sarcasm. But, if Trump really lost by cheating, it’s going to be his own fault for his horrific record in choosing AGs, and Guliani is a clown. I really do not know much about Powell.
She is in the process of one of the all-time self-beclowning acts. I’m really shocked, I thought she was a serious person.
I dunno. I believe there was fraud, and I knew there would be because of all the mail-in ballots and those drop boxes. If they were actually hacking the machines as well, then… we’ll see.
But like I said, you cannot tell because there is so much wild conspiracy stuff mixed in with the real news.
I am solidly opposed to indulging in conspiracy theories. That is a terrible human weakness.
One of my most longtime friends, from way back when I was 6-7 years old, sadly went down that path. It started with chemtrails. He’s an intelligent guy and he just went off the deep end, it got worse and worse until I… I just don’t know, it’s too late now, guy won’t listen to any common sense. We used to speak on the phone a lot, he’s in FL now. Maybe that is it, he became FL man. Something in the water down there, he wasn’t crazy until he moved down there.
I posted many times here and on TOS how unimpressed I am by the very popular tactic to dumb down any argument one doesn’t like to a conspiracy theory and then declare yourself the winner of the discussion without engaging with any substance.
I heard those drop boxes were bought by Zuckerberg. Not USPS :. not mail fraud.
Have another glimpse into my bizarre fantasy world:
The Senate Finance Committee opens an investigation into the creation and selling of the panicdemic, and subpoenas all the modellers and forces them to explain and justify, in detail, the assumptions and formulae incorporated in them. Justify, meaning provide evidence of accuracy and reliuability of predictive output. Anyone who refuses to cooperate gets jailed for contempt.
SCIENCE!
That guy is a cuck. His woman tells him what to say. She must be one heck of a dominatrix lay for this guy to have put his balls in her purse.
Sad thing is he seemed like a nice guy who was surprisingly down to earth for a royal. Some c-list actress gets her claws into him and that’s all she wrote.
C-list? As high as that?
People say he’s as thick as two short planks and needed scholastic “help” at Eton.
Me-Again on Craigy Ferg: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EM2xi5Jnd0
Power of bad pussy, yo…
And she’s not even that good looking. Kate Middleton blows her away in the looks department.
He’s making a good case for Charlie-boy genuinely being his real dad.
He looks too much like Philip anyway.
This is how you respond to being called a liar.
Hawt.
How likely nis that to show up in what passes for media today though? Most people will only get the first 45 seconds, and not the part that shows you how fucking despicable the left is.
“89,000 household have left San Francisco since March.”
Now they’ve using the vid as an excuse for people fleeing the deep blue crapholes they’ve created.
I had an idea. The states should change their emergency power acts that allocate a job for a man who followes the governor throughout an emergency. If the governor violates the law, the following guy must execute him on the spot. Maybe with some kind of axe.
Being flabbergasted at our betters not following the rules they’ve set up hasn’t really changed anything. They don’t care.
If we ever get a chance at a do-over on the Constitution, the first clause should be something along the lines of, “Killing a politician or a political appointee is not a crime.”
Crowdsource that shit.
From the American “Greatness” link:
A recent article in the Washington Examiner titled “Maybe the libertarians weren’t so irrelevant after all” just scratches the surface of the challenge posed to conservatives in America by the Libertarian Party. To state the obvious, America is a two-party system. When you split the anti-socialist vote, the socialist wins.
Aaaand done.
We lost!! And it’s the fault of the party that garnered 1% of the vote!! They split the vote!!!
How many votes did the Green candidate get? What about Kanye?
Kanye got this white-bread vote….and looking at the official results, mine was counted! The only one in my township! 4 votes in the county!
I almost wrote in Kanye.
I mean, the Dems specifically filed suit to keep the Greens and Kanye off the ballot.
Raffensperger: We’re investigating voter fraud from GOTV groups — including Abrams’
What kind of cloak and dagger or high-end statistical analysis finally got this guy to admit that there was likely voter fraud? He open his mailbox and found 3 voter applications for his son – who died two years ago.
Here in MD, I got 6 solicitations to request a mail-in ballot. Same with my wife. They all went in the garbage. But it shows just how hard they tried. What if I would have saved those and sent in the request for al of them? Does that mean I could have voted 6 times? This is a no ID state, so I could have filled all of them in with different people. They are not allowed to confirm your identity. I could go to the polls 10 times in different districts and vote as the a different person in early voting because you can register on the spot and they cannot confirm your identity. I even tried to show them my ID at the polling place and they refused to even look at it, because this is a no ID state.
But sure, there was no fraud because our system is soooo secure.
Huh, they require ID where I live. There were even a lot of minorities voting where I voted and they didn’t seem to have any issues with it.
There were even a lot of
minoritiesUncle Toms and Tio Tomases voting where I voted and they didn’t seem to have any issues with it.I heard a guy on the radio saying that the enlightened first world country of Canada doesn’t do mail in ballots and does require I.D. when you show up to vote.
And that’s in a hugely less densely populated area than the U.S. where an argument can be made that it is difficult to travel to the local polling station.
Has anyone found one democracy on the face of the planet with more lenient voting requirements than the U.S.?
But…there aren’t any minorities in Canada, so it’s OK.
And they already vote the right way.
From Q’s Epoch Times link:
McDonald said he views the CDC “as no longer credible, [because] they have issued so many reversals of their own policies and decisions.” He was referring to the agency’s initial denials that masks are effective at preventing the disease spread and subsequent reversal from that position.
DEFUND THE CDC!
Excellent link. Thx, Q.
Elliot Page started a trend.
Sméagol Sets Pronouns To Ourses/Theirses
Behold my pious bravery
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have said they will take a coronavirus vaccine once one is available and may film it to build confidence in the U.S. about vaccine safety.
“I will be taking it, and I may take it on TV or have it filmed so people know that I trust this science,” Obama told SiriusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show” during an interview that is scheduled to air in full Thursday. “What I don’t trust is getting Covid.”
Good for you.
I’m not wishing anyone dead from vaccine complications – maybe just really really sick.
Why?
Oh fuck off, it could be sugar water and no one would know the difference. And it’s not like anyone should believe either of you hacks.
The vaccine is so rushed, no one has any idea of the efficacy or safety, yet. It typically takes years for a new drug or device or in this case, vaccine, to get through trials before they can subject the public to it.
I am stuck at home with COVID, as is the wife. This sucks. It’s like that achy, coughy, cruddy lung crap that we all get every four or five winters.. Treatment: homemade chicken soup, plenty of fluids, rest, OTC pills in both green and orange varieties.
I have been sicker than this in my life, but it’s been a few years. I’m sick enough that I would have taken off work for a couple days, maybe not the whole week, but it’s definitely not just a winter sniffle. Honestly, I am willing to bet a large portion of the shriekers and doomers never had COVID, they just had a typical bug that they milked for drama.
I called into the office, spoke to Office Prog 2, who was noticeably disappointed when I told her that I felt pretty much like I did the last time I had a bad winter cold. I think she was hoping I would have a road to Damascus style conversion to the Church of COVID Doom and renounce all my hereises like “the actual death rate” and “the median age of COVID death.” and “Virus gonna virus.”
I wear my mask every indoor environment except house and car, and I got COVID because my wife got it from work……where they all wear masks. But masks totally work, for real, Fauci says so.
So you saying this shit is just as bad as a case of the flu? Fuck meh!
I don’t go to doctors, I can’t say for sure if I have ever actually had the flu. But of the times I have been laid up with a wintertime achy/fever/sore throat type bug, this is probably top 5 for me. I had a case of strep in my early 20s that kicked my ass for a week, and I have had various wintertime bugs where I just went to bed for 24-48 hours and powered through after that.
But what about the long haul?
Yeah, he could lose his hair! *The Hair shudders in fear*
Viking will be the next NL MVP.
I wear my mask every indoor environment except house and car
See, you didn’t take it serious enough! and Now the Corona God has smited you! You’re killing my dead grandmas!
Sure, the media is hyping fear, but now it is starting to come from friends and co-workers who actually know people who died. One has a 19 yr old son whose digestive system is in chaos due to chicom-19. Ex-in laws have four cases in family even though they didn’t go out much because one of them has immuno system problems due to cancer. When you start hearing about, or actually knowing, people in danger because of it, it gets scary. Without the vaccine on the horizon, the economy would really be in the shitter.
Every relative or friend of a relative of mine who’s had it has recovered without complications. Hell, I’ve had it and recovered without complications. The only people in my network who’ve died didn’t have coronavirus, and no one was surprised when they died because they were in such bad health for so long already.
I am glad my 88 year old uncle with COPD died last fall, otherwise I’m sure his passing would have been attributed to this, because a year later that’s when cases here spiked.
have a customer that caught it and didn’t need to be hospitalized but has to wear a heart monitor now.
I know just as many people who are going out of business or going to be personally bankrupt as I do people who have been hospitalized or even caught it.
My cousin’s (10 years younger than I) wife (25 years older than he) is on a ventilator/in induced coma with it. Now, she is a bit on the heavy side and IIRC has some other problems.
Is this a logic problem?
Really though, how’s your mom? Did you get some sleep?
Mom’s as well as can be expected, though he back hurts more than her surgical site (ancient screwed up surgery) plus she hasn’t got all the CO2 out, so that hurts.
Otherwise she’ coming home today, yay!
However, things got disturbing when we had to set the nurses straight about her code situation. They said she was a full code when it’s plastered all over her medical records that she’s a DNR. Turns out, even though she said DNR and had her advance directive scanned into the record, they put her as full code anyway. That was very disturbing to us, and especially her.
If anything like that had happened, they would be in a world of pocketbook hurt.
I am thankful today that Mojo’s Mom is doing better. Festus vibes work but you need to read the manual first.
Thanks, Festus. Prayers work, man.
I’m just a jackass but I’m glad she’s better and that you feel better.
I’m happy to hear she’s doing well and coming home.
Thank you for asking! I got chased out at 8:00 p.m. and went home and into a Tylenol PM-induced coma.
Oh good.
Didn’t mean to make light of your relative’s plight. Undercaffeination, QED.
Oh gosh yes. Completely undercaffeinated and woke up with a raging headache.
I mean, *I* was and am undercaffeinated also.
they just had a typical bug that they milked for drama
I have had several friends that seem to have actually been disappointed that they tested negative for COVID when they had some of the symptoms.
I got it at work, too, despite the masks, the foggers, the 6′ spacing, and the protocols.
It was all theater.
Yeah there’s zero way to stop it from spreading through a building short of full environment suits with self contained air systems. If your work involves people working together in the same room, COVID will spread.
mask don’t have a measurable efficacy beyond giving someone the illusion of control over their environment. I’d be fine with that if they didn’t get used as a bludgeon to blame the populace for the spread.
Get well soon!
A relative of mine and this relative’s spouse were into all the Lil Rona Panic bullshit and more. Masks all the time. Gloves too. Leper Length. “WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN GAS STATIONS SO PEOPLE STOP GOING OUT!” Both got the Rona. The bulk of the symptoms lasted about a week. During this period they got tested, and both were positive. After that initial week, they had another week of being drained and tired. Then back to normal.
They still wear masks and keep leper length.
jesus this is truly a religious renaissance.
To feed the fire
Bouldin tried to change the rules to allow any House member to attend sessions or committee meetings remotely.
“Let’s make this event the last super-spreader event,” Bouldin said.
Rep. Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, said the change was premature.
“Is this possibly available? Yes. We have to work with the staff and others in the State House. I am asking everybody give us a chance to work through this,” Packard said.
Note the pictures of the Democrat legislator carrying a clear umbrella to provide more protection against Lil Rona.
Mornin’ Banjos!
Research shows U.S. media outlets have covered the coronavirus pandemic far more negatively than international media sources, irrespective of any positive developments on vaccines or declining case numbers.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will relocate its global headquarters to Spring, Texas from San Jose, California. The headquarters will be located in a new state-of-the-art campus that will open in early 2022, building upon the company’s established presence in the state of Texas. The company’s headquarters relocation to the Houston area holds the potential to add additional jobs to its already robust presence in Texas in the coming years.
A part of me smiles as people and companies vote with their feet to leave the Bay Area stupidity. On the other hand, this might lead to further Californication of Texas.
RIP Walter Williams.
“On the other hand, this might lead to further Californication of Texas.”
I wish that gun shops in Texas would give discounts and special deals to people who recently moved from California. Getting those people into the gun culture would probably be one of the best steps to get them to politically assimilate to the local environment.
“On the other hand, this might lead to further Californication of Texas.”
Sadly, yes.
I like this idea.
It certainly wouldn’t hurt.
So here’s a question. A local gun store does a promotion – come in and show us a voter registration card with a ‘D’ on it, and you get 20% off any handgun, assault rifle, or high- capacity magazine. Would the louder screeching come from the left or the right?
I think she was hoping I would have a road to Damascus style conversion to the Church of COVID Doom and renounce all my hereises
The “I once was lost, but now am found” genre is extremely popular. It’s funny how the conversions only seem to go one way, toward progressive enlightenment. You never hear about the people who say, “Once I became fodder for the remorseless grinding maw of the government, I came to see the value of freedom and self-ownership.”
I thought most of us ended up here?
Yeah. I was going to say. I think that happens a lot more than otherwise. It’s just the people who talk about such things don’t talk about it.
Thomas Sowell did exactly that, didn’t he?
Not enough people.
It was truly amazing with her, because she took it for granted that I had somehow not worn a mask or violated some rule. No, honey, what matters is close contact with infected people. 15 minutes or more in a 6 foot bubble spreads it. Wife worked with someone who had it, then she came home, and that was it.
If you hung out with 20 people in a mountain cabin for a month, eating from a larder and never coming in contact with anyone else, none of you would get COVID that month. If someone then joined the group with COVID, and moved into the cabin, you would all get it inside the next two weeks, because it doesn’t matter if you mask up if you are in the same fucking building.
A guy in my department, on a separate shift, got it and no one else on the shift did, and I worked his shift to fill in with the people he worked with. Maybe I got it, when I sit out in the 20 degree weather for my breaks my nose gets a bit runny…
Even at that, I go back to the two damn ships – cruise and aircraft carrier. Didn’t even get close to half getting infected, and half or so that did were asymptomatic. So aside from it not being truly deadly (unless you’ve got one foot in the grave already), I tend to not believe it is as contagious as the hype insists.
I’m pretty sure I had it. If I did, no one else in my family got it from me – only relatives who have been sick live elsewhere and I haven’t seen them since I was sick.
Libertarians may be the reason that, come January 20, Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress
Yeah. Except from what I’ve been able to see, Trump did better with libertarians than any GOP president in a while.
“In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading. ”
EQUALITY!
That’s good, because math and reading are racist.
They aren’t referred to as Baltimorons for nothing.
But they all will be voting in a few years.
That is pretty amazing.
I remember being amazed at how many hockey players in high school were always in danger of losing their eligibility to play because of grades (a D or F would bench you).
You actively had to work to get a D or an F. Like not turn in any homework or pay the least amount of attention in school. Fuck, I was a horrible truant every spring and I’d get a couple of C’s because I had missed so much class.
My kids were achieving the minimum proficiency standards for high school graduates in grade school. You’d think just by going to school you’d have at least a few kids be proficient.
Most people are morons. Why did you think TPTB built this Treehouse? I’ve copped to being the dumbest Glib numerous times but that still makes me stars away from your regular Jane and Joe commenting on Huff-Po. Embrace the dizzying heights of peak snarkitude! You’ve earned it1
When you realize how minimal the standards are to be scored ‘proficient’ the fact that they couldn’t get a single student to that level makes it clear that public schools need to be eliminated and teacher’s unions disbanded.
An alternatively hilarious/pathetic story from the era of school lockdowns – my children are much like me. Reasonably intelligent but lazy as all fucking get out. Since they are on computers all day, they often spend their time on YouTube (son) or pleasure reading (daughter) rather than schoolwork, and I can’t possibly watch them constantly to prevent them from doing so. And yet, their teachers are bending over backwards to give them innumerable chances to make up missed assignments so they don’t end up with Ds and Fs. It is practically impossible for them to actually fail a class.
Same but I suspect the whole school year will go scrapped at the end or go down with an asterisk.
I honestly don’t care if XY fails and repeats 9th grade. It willbe better for him academically anyway.
XX is in trade school and since it’s IT she gets to do it remotely except on hybrid days. She’ll be fine.
I suspect white supremacy is to blame, what with all the Klansmen running the Baltimore public schools.
File under “news to me”
Seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton has been ruled out of the upcoming event at the Bahrain International Circuit after returning multiple positive COVID-19 test results on Monday.
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How Hamilton contracted the virus has not been revealed, but it is understood that the world champion has not deviated from the strict protocols that he has lived under all season.
After the Turkish Grand Prix, Hamilton returned to his home in Monaco as per normal, and ahead of the Bahrain GP he travelled to Dubai.
There, he spent some time with his family, who had all been tested before travelling and returned negative tests, as well as making a personal appearance at an event.
He left Dubai for Bahrain, where he had three further tests that all returned negative before it was confirmed on Tuesday he had contracted the virus.
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“Since we started the season in June, my team and I have been taking all the precautions we possibly can and following the regulations everywhere in order to stay safe.
“Unfortunately, even though I returned three negative results this past week, I woke up yesterday morning with mild symptoms and requested another test which came back positive.
“I’ve immediately gone into self-isolation for 10 days.
“I’m gutted not to be able to race this weekend but my priority is to follow the protocols and advice to protect others.
“I’m really lucky that I feel OK with only mild symptoms and will do my best to stay fit and healthy.
“Please look after yourselves out there. You can never be too careful. These are worrying times for everyone and we need to make sure we are looking after ourselves and each other. Stay positive.”
You can never be too careful. Especially when you’re a multimillionaire. And yet… there he is, with a mild case of the sniffles. What a cruel world we live in.
Um, isn’t his job to sit alone, in a car, wearing a fucking helmet?
In a bit of good news for today, one of the sites I play board games online (Board Game Arena) has announced they’re releasing a new playable game every day for the month of December. For December 1st, they released one that’s been out of print for quite a while here in the US (copies go for around $100 on most online stores/auctions; a little less on specialty sites like BGG) Thurn and Taxis.
They’ve also recently added a very nice implementation of La Granja (a medium-weight game with lots and lots of options).
It was all theater.
That, in sign form, would be a good decoration for Foochy as he dangles from a lamppost.
I go back to the two damn ships – cruise and aircraft carrier. Didn’t even get close to half getting infected, and half or so that did were asymptomatic.
Ix-nay!
Everybody on board the Theodore Roosevelt died. They were all buried at sea, under cover of darkness, the ship was disinfected, and a replacement crew was placed aboard.
They still wear masks and keep leper length.
okay…
2020 Rated Worst Year Ever, Provided You Never Lived At Any Other Time In History
They seem to have moved all of the cheery, cute beer store maidens to the day shift. Lately there is a shift to to the sullen, overweight, world-weary type. I demand a recount!
Hey F! I didn’t contact you because I didn’t want to risk getting you in trouble. Also, I fell asleep. I think I was overconfident anyway in my ability to cheer you up.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/mediaviewer/rm2533641728/
No worries! Yusef picked up the ball and rambled in for the TD. Feel free to text me to your heart’s content. I’ll even respond but maybe not in a timely manner 🙂
@RC Dean, if you’re up and around this early,
Yesterday evening we found out that even though she specified she was a DNR and had her advance directive scanned into the record, they put her as full code anyway and said something about automatic full code in the OR and for 30 days afterward (which I did not understand). I had to get a tidge testy and pull out the advance directive again.
Is that normal? Why would they do that? And what is the 30 days thing?
Sorry, backstory: My 77yo mom had surgery yesterday for a frozen diaphragm. She does not want heroic measures or much of any measures to keep her alivebecause a) she hurts all the time, b) she wants to see my dad again, and c) she thinks her quality of life after measures will be significantly worse.
DNRs are suspended in the OR, because the anesthesiologist’s job is to keep you just barely this side of dead, and occasionally people have to be brought back. One of those things that happens more often than people think. The suspension may extend into the post-oprecovery period, depending on what the procedure was, the patient’s condition, etc.
I’ve never heard of anybody extending to for 30 days. Makes no sense to me. By the time you leave post-op recovery, the DNR should be back in force.
They clarified that it is as long as you are inpatient and that it is related to the surgery that they can fix. As soon as you are discharged it goes back into effect.
I highlighted why Nevada is a good case for Trump yesterday. All the parts are in place for intentional and/or unintentional voter fraud.
I could have voted twice in Nevada and once in LA County (maybe twice if I drove down there) and have a good chance of getting away with it because in years past this shit was just brushed aside as too minor to look at.
Hoe Lee Sheet, the process for getting a brokerage account up and running is slow.
Filling in all the forms didn’t take that long, but getting to the point where I can buy a single share of stock is taking forever. The bank says the money I transferred to to the brokerage is not in the account. It shows up as ‘available for trades’ in the brokerage, but has not fully ‘cleared’ so I can put in orders for mutual funds (which take a day in of themselves to clear) but not stocks, since it’s not officially cash on hand.
Once you are up and running and have funds/securities on deposit get approved for margin trading (do not actually trade on margin!) that should enable you to trade with funds before they ‘clear’.
It’s getting to that point that is the issue.
I actually didn’t request margin trading approval, because I had no intention of trading on margin.
I understand. The issue will recur though every time you add funds, and margin approval ameliorates it. Or you can wait the 3-5 business days. It always seems that you are missing out by waiting those days, but in reality you are about as likely to be better off by waiting as by buying earlier.
Quick! Apply for margin trading!
LOLno
UCS, do not trade on margin. I advise sticking to index funds.
I think my risk adverse nature is known at this point.
I have divided my investment fund into portions – diversified low risk funds, long term hold of a handful of specific companies, and a small ‘whimsy’ portion where I do things like invest in a gold fund, even though the dollar amount is less than one ounce worth.
Zoiby want to buy internet stock on margin!
Just like Randolph and Mortimer
Just curious, who are you using for the brokerage account?
Schwab as per glib recommendations in the last glibfin comments.
Goodbye to any semblance of free and fair elections.
“It’s a tradition that a new House majority reserves its top priority for what they call H.R. 1 — House Resolution number one — the very first bill that’s introduced,” Cotton explained. “H.R. 1, under Nancy Pelosi, was a radical election law bill that would have mandated universal mail-out balloting in every state of the union. It would have required states to permit ballot harvesting. It wouldn’t have only prohibited photo identification — which [is] needful — it would have prohibited even signature verification.”
H.R. 1, dubbed the “For the People Act,” would nationally mandate automated mailing out of ballots to registered voters for elections while prohibiting states from having photo-ID requirements for ballot submission or signature verification of ballots.
Cotton continued, “[H.R. 1 would] impose draconian restrictions on campaign spending, so Republicans and conservatives can’t spend our own money to get our message out while the Democrats rely on tech giants and the mainstream media to get their message out. So unfortunately, I don’t see Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House taking many steps to protect the interior of our elections, so it’ll really be incumbent upon Republicans at the state level — especially in those states that have have had troubled elections [and] have the biggest problems — over the next two to four years — like Pennsylvania, like Michigan, like Wisconsin — to take steps to protect the integrity of their ballots.”
This article is good, but the picture is worth 100,000 words. Wish I could post it, just for showing the utter vacuity of the principals in it.
That picture could be the cover of the next edition of “The Banality Of Evil”.
Washington proclaiming,” Presenting, Morons”
God, that’s perfect! Bravo!!!!
It’s like an Accidental Renaissance painting.
Four years later..2017…OMB…all his fault.
Just remember, Rice and Kennedy are sure to be recycled thru the Biden/Harris administration.
That’s when you need a slouch hat, trench coat and a Thompson. Fuck those old cuntes for being such recalcitrant asshoes just because OMB. Gibbets is not enough for those lying sacks of shit. They’ve pissed down the American public’s leg for 12 years. Sure, piss down the other one and tell me it’s raining.
Or you can go to hell, you tyrannical cunte.
In overcoming #COVID19, we can also avert climate catastrophe and restore our planet.
We have a chance to not simply reset the world economy but to transform it.
Pandemic recovery and our planet’s repair can be two sides of the same coin.
Since the beginning of this thing I have noted the similarities to the climate hustling and I have zero doubt that they are going to try and use some of these same forms of repression in service of their climate religion.
Never let a crisitunity go to waste, especially if you created the crisis in the first place.
Those two stories about HP’s move from San Jose and people fleeing SF give me a slight bit of happiness. I’d really like to see a larger tech exodus from the Bay Area. The Bay Area has been liberal for as long as I’ve been alive, but it really turned hardcore progressive over the last decade or so, and I think the tech bubble here is at least partly to blame. Local governments here need to be bitch slapped into reality, and I don’t know if a good part of their tax base will do it, but I know it wouldn’t happen with the status quo.
A really good friend of mine lives there. Semi-successful musician and re-hab contractor. I lost touch with him when I cut the cord on Face-Stalk about 8 years ago. Wonder how he’s making out. He chased a pussy from one liberal enclave to the next (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fran). Hope he hasn’t stepped in too much sidewalk feces.
What I can’t figure is how the tech world, which was strongly liberty and entrepreneur focused became fucking captive to progressivism.
HR departments. Somebody’s little piece of side quim poured a little poison in the ear of the movers and shakers. Or maybe Chinese influence and $. It’s done like dinner now.
Women: the cause of all of life’s problems.
The cause of all life and will never let you forget it, Mister.
Yeah, I thought that the tech influx might actually bring a bit more suspicion of big government, but it has clearly done the opposite. We are the center for Googfacetwit and it shows in our local politics.
Give your buddy a bell Festus!
Time to go avoid some feces and make a buck.
When they were young, fresh, and revolutionary, freedom and innovation were necessary for their success. Now that they are established, staid, and dependent on fickle institutional investors, freedom is dangerous to the bottom line and innovation can be captured through buyouts.
So yesterday SF said one of the PTB created ‘Ball Park Franks’. I couldn’t read the who thread. Was this discussed? As I’m pretty sure of the one responsible, and knowing Xe’s dietary restrictions, now I can understand why that hot dog tastes so shitty. (I Would have guessed Hebrew National)
I figured he was kidding about that?