Is this replay ever gonna happen?
The Steelers-Ravens game got pushed to Wednesday as the league continues to be stupid. The Seahawks beat the Eagles but not the spread. Across the pond, Leicester blew their chance to top the table. And the second week of CFP standings come out today, which will be of great interest to me and many others. And that’s sports.
Soviet sociopath Georgy Zhukov was born on this day. He shares it with John Birch Society founder Robert Welch Jr, baseball HOFer Walter Alston, infielder Cookie Lavagetto, actress Mary Martin, another infielder Marty Marion, singer Lou Rawls, moviemaker and pervert Woody Allen, golf great Lee Trevino, comedic genius Richard Pryor, singer Bette Midler, drug lord Pablo Escobar, Reds great George Foster, actress Sarah Silverman, and outfielder Reggie Sanders.
Gettin’ bad.
That was a baseball-heavy list, which should make at least one person happy here, :-). Now on to…the links!
Oh look, a hypocrite. And if we’re being honest, this isn’t the worst thing about this lady. She’s a freaking idiot all the way around. Just ask anybody you know from LA.
I’m curious to see how this rollout goes. Will all the people who said they’d never get a Trump vaccine actually live up to their word? Will the anti-vcxx people refuse? Will there be large numbers of people refuse because they already had the virus? Will somebody in the media explain the potential side effects? Lots of questions. Oh, and just in case you were wondering where the (big L) Libertarians at Cato stand on this…here you go. Christ, what an asshole.
And in “consequences that should have been foreseen” news. I swear, at some point, people need to start holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies.
Seattle is a shithole.
Sticking with the theme of “consequences that should have been foreseen”, I give you Seattle. I swear, at some point, people need to start holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies.
Something good is happening in the great state of Ohio. I hope this is the start of people holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies.
This makes a lot of sense. Man engages in voluntary transactions that ultimately helps the economy and employ people? Throw his ass in jail! Guess he should have paid the mob government their protection money.
I approve of this trolling.
We need more of this! And then Newsom needs to be held accountable for his illegal orders.
No shit, lady. But nobody cares because “they’re just trying to save lives” or some such nonsense. I swear, at some point, people need to start holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies.
Here’s a song for you to enjoy. I know I will. Hell, I might watch the movie today if I can find it in my boxes full of movies that I still haven’t gotten around to copying to a hard drive yet because I’m lazy and computer illiterate.
Now get out there and have a great day start holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies. Or just have a great day. Whatever works for you, friends.
With “libertarians” like Ilya Shapiro, who needs Democrats?
Cato really not covering themselves in glory lately.
It’s not just Cato.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
@ENBrown
This is gross behavior Rep Massie
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1333723361868967937
I thought she was a hookeritarian?
SIV::Cockfighting as ENB::Whores.
I’d do her as long as I got to double-bag and made her cuck watch…
Somebody just outed themselves as Robbie Soave.
My hair is no longer that magnificent, I can change a tire and I just checked. Yes my balls dropped about forty-five years ago. No, this is not the Robbie you are looking for… 🙂
The only thing we really know about her is that she can’t make a sammich, but she needs a sammich.
Boy is she dumb. Ilya Shapiro TWEETED IT.
Lest we forget she went hard after a teenage kid and mentioned “future employers” because he made a sandwich joke.
Was that Irish? Good lad. I miss him.
Concur on Irish, though I don’t think he was the kid Weigel In Drag was attacking. Irish had interesting posts and got a bad rap.
Yeah. This is serious, not some dumb joke about making a sandwich.
“Gross” What is she, a 15 year-old from 1977?
Ron Paul is groddy to the max.
There is a rumble in my stomach, bread in the bread box and and sliced meat in the fridge. I cannot manage the next steps… where oh where is the hero that I need right now?
No hero, but maybe someone could sub for him.
I think you’re slicing it a little close there
You might want to look on Grindr.
*narrows gaze*
Maybe I should be looking on Grind(e)r.
Grate minds…
Cheese Louise, dude.
Brochettaward would really appreciate that single minute ?
My first thought was trying to do something with “hoagie” but I couldn’t come up with anything quickly enough. If you’d like to pick up the gauntlet ?
JHTFC
To think I ever gave those asshats any money.
To which we have this reply:
Dunno who Rachel Nyx is, but she is better qualified for Shapiro’s job.
This is the thing, I could see an argument for a really deadly contagious disease. I’d still disagree with the argument (the public is far more likely to make that call correctly than self-interested government actors would), but I could still see it from a libertarian perspective.
What I can’t see is the sheer certitude with which Shapiro states his point, and the self-righteousness he proudly displays while doing so. Since when did “holier than thou” become a desirable personality trait? If Shapiro had merely disagreed with Massie while trying to make the same point, I’d still strongly disagree with him, but he’d come off a fuckton better.
When it comes to Trump Cato has probably been worse than TOS. But they’re multifaceted and still do good work in a lot of areas.
Over at Cato, they all got cocktail party invites. Changes everything.
I believe this is the second impeachment against the great and all powerful DeWine (Asshoe – Ohio). There was some joking at the bar on Sunday that the Stillers and Ravens should both forfeit their game (one Stillers fan in attendance was willing to capitulate to a tie for both teams).
In local news, as Cleveland is in the “grips of its first winter storm”, there’s still headlines for school closings… in this, our time of remote learning. Best line from the article:
(Emphasis added by me.)
Unless you have DISH for internet service and the snow interrupts your service. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
“DISH ate my homework”
I get the impression Sloopy wants to prosecute politicians.
Must be imagining things.
I don’t want them prosecuted. I want them held accountable by the people.
So, lampposts?
Sloopy wants to pERsecute politicians.
full on inquisition kangaroo courts.
I think he really wants to see them fall into woodchippers.
Nice use of passive voice !
I prefer tarring & feathering for minor offenses, and the Guillotine for the real bad ones.
The boats.
I’ll bring the honey.
Dr Goldstein is out
A controversial coronavirus adviser to the president, Dr. Scott Atlas, resigned Monday, a White House official told NPR.
Atlas, who is not an infectious disease expert and whose brief stint was marred by blunders and controversy, was tapped by the Trump administration to serve as special adviser to the president of the United States, in August. Since then, “the MRI guy” has repeatedly been at odds with the nation’s leading health officials regarding his views on how to combat the spread of the virus, including members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
But throughout his tenure, he has insisted all of the guidance he’s offered was based on scientific research.
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Atlas’ field of expertise is in magnetic resonance imaging. He wrote a book on the subject and co-authored numerous scientific studies on the economics of medical imaging technology. He was also a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2012, according to a university biography.
“He’s an MRI guy … He has no expertise in any of this stuff,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health told NPR, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed nearly 267,000 people in the U.S.
“He’s been bringing out arguments that have been refuted week after week, month after month, since the beginning of this outbreak,” Jha added.
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Atlas has been highly critical of the lockdowns enforced by various state and municipal leaders — a strategy he continued to oppose in his farewell letter.
Since Atlas began his job in August, nearly one hundred thousand people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Science is what the establishmentarian consensus says it is.
At 4AM, during my sleep mode malfunction, I turned on the Hitler Channel. They were talking about Hitler’s development of his rhetorical style and the Big Lie. There was a term; “Hammer-[something or other]”. He would bludgeon the audience into submission with incessant repetition of his insane delusional ravings.
Kind of like the nonstop “PUT THE MASK ON. ONLY THE MASK CAN SAVE YOU” Foochyspeak.
“whose brief stint was marred by blunders and controversy”
This is pretty much the exact same thing they said about the FCC chairman. I guess they have a memo to make sure everyone knows that everyone who worked for Trump was a bumbling fool.
…and evil. Don’t forget evil.
Baseless accusations of blunders.
That’s a lot of blood to have on your hands. I wonder how he lives with himself.
There was no blood. He smothered them all with pillows.
He’s like Santa Claus, going down a lot of chimneys.
Were they my pillows?
For the best nights sleep in the….
how many people have died of infectious disease since fauci took his job at the CDC?
Zing!
“But that’s because Drumpf won’t listen to him!!!11oneeleventyone!!1”
who is not an infectious disease expert
And that makes him different from Fauci….how, exactly?
You will listen to the High Priests of Science or be excommunicated!
Murad said domestic tensions have intensified in confined living spaces, and stay-at-home orders “are increasing human trafficking farther underground, out of sight of law enforcement.”
Out of sight of law enforcement. Like that stopped this shit in prisons.
Logically that means a lot of human tracking was succeeding in plain sight of law enforcement before
And Happy 49th Birthday, lobot.
Wow happy birthday! We are 8 days apart. Even in the same year. Maybe lobot and I are also the same model Tulpa.
We all are, Tulpa.
Yes, happy birthday!
I have yet to have a fierce mask n’ lockdown advocate (I have several friends who are) explain to me how the months of both haven’t already stopped the ‘vid. Usually the excuse is “people aren’t obeying” – so why do they think they will now, after 8+ months? Will they change their stance when the vaxx is handed out?
I am genuinely puzzled, not just being insulting.
Totally not authoritarian to require 100% active participation of every human in a country.
The only thing I find in common is that they have not been really impacted by the lockdowns and such – all able to still work and such. Maybe if they were watching their life’s work slip away they would feel different? Just a lack of ability to see what is happening to others?
This is it exactly. I know several people who are on the verge of losing their businesses and it fills me with a white-hot rage when people are so fucking cavalier about it.
If you are cool with the lockdowns you are a bad and stupid person.
Or, you simply don’t know – have no ability to empathize or see from that perspective. I slowly try to point out that others are not as well positioned, and losing a third generation family business and falling into poverty is a bit of a motivator to misbehave. I may get through to some, maybe?
Back in April I would agree. To still not see it in December suggests diminished mental and moral capacity.
They won’t change – they believe in a magical economy that just happens, not that it is the end result of the hard work of many, many people. This is a point that Sowell hits on in Wealth, Poverty and Economics – he really sticks it to Stiglitz and Krugman in particular. This is a key underpinning of all re-distributionist argument.
Wealth, Poverty and POLITICS – sheesh that was a brainfart
I would say that lacking the ability to empathize with people outside the dominant culture, is a pretty good indicator of badness and/or stupidity.
It’s shocking and revealing how many people in this country do fake business. They don’t even see what’s coming.
Most of the pro-lockdowners I know have easy-to-WFH jobs. They have zero comprehension of others who do not. It’s either that or the government can take care of them reasoning.
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The pro-mask/pro-lockdown people I know are WFH, don’t have to work, or public employees.
what’s crazy is they are about half of the population. The people who create are far less than maybe a 1/3 of the economy and the rest is paper-shuffling bullshit make work jobs for the others it’s terrifying recipe for calamity.
Manufacturing is probably the most difficult business simply because you actually produce wealth. As such, everybody else is gunning for you to take a piece of your action.
You can work from home and add value. My wife works from home, and her job could roughly be described as talking dumb people who outrank her off the particular ledge they are teetering on that day.
As a rough indicator of productivity, if someone is willing to choose to buy whatever you’re working on, you’re adding value – or the person in charge of supervising the product or service is actively destroying value by not weeding out the unproductive.
Manufacturing doesn’t always produce wealth. Some times it takes perfectly good raw materials and components and makes something less valuable from them
*remembers the ’81 Cutlass Diesel my Dad bought. The one with the engine GM converted from gas to diesel because of the fuel shortage. The one that would not start at any temperature below freezing even if you plugged in the heater over night. The one that started oozing some horrible substance down the back window the first summer after he bought it, which a dozen mechanics could not identify, one went so far as to suggest the car was haunted.
@prolofeed I’m not suggesting people don’t have value who work from home or aren’t selling stuff my problem is the people far removed from how they/their company actually makes money. It’s shocking how many people are disconnected from that reality because they don’t have to be to continue to be employed.
^^^ So much this. My wife’s client is IBMers, and apparently a significant chunk of IBM’s workforce can actively destroy value and still keep their job for decades.
It’s shocking how many people are disconnected from that reality because they don’t have to be to continue to be employed.
There should be a level of humility that comes with those types of positions. “I am here because somebody thinks that I, personally, can add value. There is nothing inherent in my job description that makes me valuable to the company.”
That implicates most of HR, most of middle management, marketing, a large percentage of sales, a substantial portion of legal, anybody with “responsibility” or “diversity” in their title, etc.
I’m in one of those roles to an extent. I’m not in the profit making side of the business. I’m in the risk mitigation side of the business. More than many, I can connect my output to an impact on the bottom line, but it’s not a direct impact. As such, I feel the need to respect the time of those who actually build or make something for the company. I don’t think that my perspective is shared by many in “non-essential” roles at my company. The world revolves around them.
That’s too bad. They can’t see what the objection to masks, lockdowns, vaccines etc are, but they are sure it must be motivated by selfishness. I don’t see how you couldn’t see the other side of the story after 9 months of this, but for some reason some people just can’t.
They don’t hear it or or see it. I watched NBC and CBS news on a couple of occasions in the last month, just to see what is being put out there. It’s the Andromeda Strain.
This is really it. As I told Suthen yesterday, there are still large swaths of the public that watch/listen/read TMITE and actually believe it. If you take TMITE at face value, the picture is much bleaker epidemiologically and much rosier economically.
My wife got upset at me when I said she couldn’t understand the POV of the 70M+ people who voted for Trump because, except for me, she lives in an echo chamber where everyone else she is close with sees the same news and isn’t exposed to an alternative POV.
Then she suggested I had the same issue. I said it would be damn near impossible to not know the POV of the dominant culture, or of her entire family.
Related.
“The only thing I find in common is that they have not been really impacted by the lockdowns and such – all able to still work and such. Maybe if they were watching their life’s work slip away they would feel different? ”
So much this Swiss…
I have found that people that have not been impacted financially (i.e. they can still work while playing Punxatawney Phil) are fine with the whole “OBEY” shit. Those that are being destroyed by that crap on the other hand are not willing to just give up.
What micturates me off about the “We are all in this together” crowd is that every one of them I run across is still getting a paycheck or their retirement income. When I mention the fact that many people are losing their jobs, businesses and life’s savings it never seems to shake their condescending self righteousness.
why didn’t everyone retire with a pension from the state or feds? they don’t care it’s remarkable the class divide on this is real and I would not be shocked by reactionary marxism really taking hold to burn the witches with many people who would be aligned against those types cheering them on because at they are putting the corporate/gov bourgeouse down first. The amount of small business owners who not only think the election was rigged but are going to be out of work and bankrupt because of this fucktardery is enourmous and getting larger everyday they are going to want restitution. This isn’t myopic bullshit like who was to blame for the 2008 crash everyone whose losing knows exactly who did this to them and are rightfully upset. We are in for some zainy times ahead, I think we will pull threw but the potential for things to get really ugly is absolutely real.
It’s religious belief at this point. Those who don’t follow the rituals are bringing the wraith of the ‘vid upon us. That’s why mostly peaceful protests are okay, but Thanksgiving was going to doom us all.
Thanksgiving is a symbol of Western culture, therefore it is bad and must be eradicated. It only started with some racist statues, but the real target it Western culture.
Human beings are rationalizing animals not reasoning ones. We reach conclusions emotionally then work back from those conclusions to construct narratives that support the conclusion. We all, without exception, do this. Occasionally some of us can step beyond this trait and reason our way to a new conclusion, but this does not happen often either in terms of the number of people that ever do it, or the number of times an individual does it in his or her life. Souls searching is hard, admitting fault is harder.
The only thing that has worked has been the restaurants here putting in tens of thousands of dollars on plexiglass barriers, hand sanitizing stations, spacing, etc … and being told, “nope”. Some of the hardcore are a bit bemused by this – “They have obeyed, Comrade Pritzker. Whycome they not able to open?”
And they have no answer to the fact that, as OMWC demonstrated, there is no statistically significant difference between outcomes in lockdown-heavy states and outcomes in freer states.
I would sincerely like an answer to these two questions:
If lockdowns work, why do we need another one?
If lockdowns don’t work, why are we doing another one?
People pray whether or not their prayers are ever answered.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/mediaviewer/rm3361697024/
At this point it’s not about stopping the ‘vid, it’s about those sweet, sweet feelings of righteous anger and smug superiority they get when they see people not going along with the masks and lockdowns.
If a policy requires an unrealistic level of compliance in order to work, then it’s an ineffective policy.
Good morning, Sloop!
…start holding the people who instituted these draconian lockdowns responsible for the fallout from their policies.
How? There are still millions of people who think this is the scariest thing EVAH! I swear, if our fuckhead governor ran for reelection tomorrow, he’d fucking win.
Also, I’m no anti-vaxxer but I’ll take a pass on this one. As we’ve seen many times, trying to quickly scale something new and unproven is exceedingly difficult and potentially dangerous.
Fuck that.
In funnier news, my governor is on Malice’s radar.
It made my day.
Great song. I saw the Furs a few years ago. It was a decent show, but Richard Butler looked like Mike Myers playing Austin Powers.
You have a great day as well!
Malice has more likes than Walz.
Excellent.
This makes a lot of sense. Man engages in voluntary transactions that ultimately helps the economy and employ people? Throw his ass in jail! Guess he should have paid the mob government their protection money.
Ok, I am all for eliminating the income tax and repealing laws against any voluntary interactions people choose to have, but when libertarians move from “Not the government’s business to police personal choices” to claiming the choice to allow suckers to gamble on credit is beneficial because it is economic activity you lose me. It should be legal because the government should never police behavior that does not directly infringe another person’s rights, but I’m sure as hell not going to regard the guy loan sharking through his offshore book, or pimping, or dealing heroin as a good dude.
^this
People have a hard time distinguishing between legal and moral.
“There oughta be a law against that!”
–Karen
“Since there should NOT be a law against it is fine to do that!”
-Libertarian
I’ll not belabor this too much, since I’ve written articles on this exact subject.
Live and let live libertarianism is ineffective, at best, in the face of a moralistic opposition.
I am genuinely puzzled, not just being insulting.
Masks in theory, vs masks in practice? I don’t know.
And-
Adventures in Mask Hysteria:
Yesterday, I ran in to the grocery store to grab a couple of things. As I got to the door, the little voice in my head was saying, “Put the mask on, put the mask on. Don’t rock the boat.” I stuck my hand in my pocket, and no mask. Fuck it. I go in, grab my stuff (One woman looked at me as if she was gazing upon the visage of the anti-Christ made flesh. Tough shit, lady.) I got to the checkout, and the female hominid at the register, who has revealed herself previously as a particularly zealous mask Nazi, got all huffy and refused to ring my stuff up until I put a mask on. From behind the plexiglass screen.
I don’t want to ride this ride anymore.
So, did he provide you a mask?
I’m going to detain you here longer without a mask until you put on a mask!
I’ve forgotten my mask a few times. Just pull up my shirt neck over my mouth. Fuck ’em.
^This, right here.
I just go to the self checkout, unless that isn’t available.
I’ve yet to have someone tell me to mask up or I won’t be allowed to pay for my stuff. If they insist, they’re gonna be asked if they personally are gonna reshelve all the stuff in my cart, or are they required to throw it all away?
I ordered 2 new masks – which will piss my wife off, she believes.
https://i.etsystatic.com/14072604/r/il/c90011/2658499767/il_794xN.2658499767_1h4v.jpg
https://i.etsystatic.com/14072604/r/il/0b3467/2610839958/il_794xN.2610839958_1z6i.jpg
Here’s what I would do in such a situation.
“Despite not required by law to tell you this, because it’s a gross violation of HIPAA and codified in the state mandates regarding masks, I have asthma and have been advised by my primary care physician to not wear a mask so as not to increase the percentage of CO2 I breathe in. Now, this brings me to my second point. I have now shown to you, in direct violation of HIPAA mind you, that I am at an elevated risk from dying of most respiratory diseases. However, you don’t see me telling you not to touch your filthy mask before grabbing my groceries and scanning them across your filthy counter…” I’d then smile at him/her like Jim Carey.
Despite not required by law to tell you this, because it’s a gross violation of HIPAA
No, its not. You, as an individual, are not subject to HIPAA at all. It prohibits you from doing nothing. Anyone can ask you your health status without violating HIPAA, as well.
The 131 seconds she is in within 4 feet of you are sure to kill her!
Philadelphia is seeing the same thing as Seattle. More murders already this year (454) than every full year since 1990 and on pace to exceed the yearly totals for both 1990 and 1989. My rant related to this: there’s a Quaker meeting house near where I live and every Saturday there were a bunch of older white folks (since the election only 2 or 3 show up now, when it was 25 or so before the election), presumably Quakers, out front of the meeting holding up BLM signs. The ONLY name of anyone killed in Philadelphia on any sign is “Walter Wallace”. None of the seventeen children murdered in Philly this year, not even the six under the age of 10.
Yep. Our city is back to the bad old days when it was known as “Murderapolis”.
Also car-jackings every single day, particularly in wealthier areas.
Nice job, people.
The funny thing is that when I talk to my girlfriend about her fear of this crime spree she was told by the authorities was going on and she should just accept as the new normal, she was furious they told her to just give it up. Man does she get pissed when I point out that she has not connected the problem with the people that those like her that have drank the liberal koolaid keep electing….
She gets even madder when I remind her NYC ended up only getting cleaned up by Giuliani’s election (she now hates the guy because of evil orange man) when the people couldn’t take it anymore. I told the that I wondered who your Giuliani will be, and how long it would take for people to finally decide that this stupid shit the left believes in is criminal.
Then again, NYC is back on track to return to the good ole days of the 70s & 80s crime rates itself, so the left seems to always be fucking life up for people.
Look, you can’t build back better until you’ve first burnt it all down.
Print that up on a t-shirt, and I’d be in for a few.
Virtue signaling upgraded to virtue kabuki.
Looking forward to the step up to virtue martyrdom.
“Virtue seppuku”
Local news story:
How safe is Cleveland? You might not like the answer …
From the article:
One of these things is not like the other one…
I too look at a disease with 99.9% Survival rate when i look at saftey metrics. Why are they not counting the incidence of Rabies? Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms set in.
foreclosure rates? What does that have to do with safety?
They went for three different metric roll ups: Home and Community safety; Natural Disaster risk; Financial safety.
Sounds like we need more gun control.
mornin’
Better psychedelic furs.
Even better…
MTTGA!
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This is a good one Q
Good baseball birthday list today, even with you leaving out Larry Fucking Walker (personal nickname for him). He is an HOFer and today’s WAR leader.
Alston had one major league at bat. Foster was smacking the ball over the fence in an era when that was out of style. Sanders had almost as many WAR as Foster, he just didnt have the MVP quality seasons that Foster had.
Foster finished 2nd to Morgan in 1976 and then won the MVP in 1977. When 1st and 2nd are on the same team, you know that is a good team. Sanders only MVP vote season was 1995, when he finished 6th behind Reds teammate Barry Larkin. 1-6 isn’t quite 1-2, but pretty good.
Here is Walker’s WAR by season from 1997-2003: 9.8, 5.7, 5.1, 1.6, 7.8, 6.1, 4.4. Anyone wanna guess which year he was the central focus of my fantasy team and earned his nickname?
And for those needing roto stats to figure it out:
1999: 37/115/11/.379
2000: 9/ 51 / 5 /.309
2001: 38/123/14/.350
Loved Larry Walker, but Coors boosted his career stats a bit.
Of course, but WAR adjusts for that. He jumped at age 30 during his 3rd year in Colorado to a new level. What is Canadian for steroids?
stEHroids
Sterouids
I think Foster in 1977 was the last 50 homer guy until Cecil Fielder in 1991. Underrated player.
“Seahawks beat the Eagles but not the spread”
They must not have been wearing their masks.
Unless you’re in the NFC East, beating the Eagles is not something to be proud of.
So, did he provide you a mask?
Yes it left its station to get one, exposing everyone in the building to my poisonous presence even longer than if it had just rung up the fucking potato chips.
Be of good cheer. You let him write a big story about it on his twitter feed and it was seen by one of his 50 followers.
The point is you were shamed (in their eyes).
Did they provide him a scarlet mask?
Photo shows Australian soldier drinking out of Taliban fighter’s prosthetic leg
The senior elite soldier, who is still on active duty, was captured in the sick sculling act at the Fat Lady’s Arms watering hole, which was set up inside Australia’s base in Tarin Kowt in 2009, The Guardian Australia reported.
Alpha move.
Geez, I hope they rinsed it out first.
There were many ads this last campaign season. The ones that bothered me the most were the “veterans for Biden” because “Biden knows what it’s like to send a son to war”. Yeah and he seems totally willing to send everyone to war over useless shit.
“Send a son to war”….he was a fucking JAG. He certainly wasn’t clearing houses and going on patrol.
Yeah, but if like the 5 layers of security at Bargram had been breached, he could have totally been in danger.
And, in the interests of complete disclosure, I certainly wasn’t either. Being in Iraq was never what you’d call fun, but if you had to go, I had it about as good as you could. I flew into Al-Asad, spent seven months there, and flew home. Never had to leave the base. Base had a full PX, gym, internet, Burger King/Pizza Hut, even a (very cold) swimming pool. I certainly don’t blather about how I was such a warrior, because that wasn’t my job. My job was to maintain radars.
He was in Baghdad, IIRC. Al-Faw Palace, perhaps?
Sorry man, you’re just going to have to come out to your family as straight.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13341651/thought-was-gay-fallen-woman/
The problem is, you’re not actually a guy.
Right now, in the background, some fucking “public health expert” is on my teevee, moaning about spiking cases and impending DOOM. Death unimagineable! Wear your masks, because the nurses are whining. The propaganda machine grinds on.
And on. And on.
Fuck you, you stupid cunt. I hope a chunk of a building falls on you.
Are they still doing the thing where they immediatly blame “spikes” in any statistic on the think they told you not to do, even though it hasn’t been 10 days yet? Or is this still all being blamed on Sturgis? Or the Tulsa rally? Or the Anti-Lockdown
protestsriotsOr any large gathering that isn’t put on by leftists? (Or Lakers fans)
HA! Those events don’t spread the covid. In fact we have these scientific studies showing that leftist events slowed it down!
Yes I have already heard them refer to this recent increase is because of Tgiving travellers and revelers
Minnesoda Public Health Officials still bring up Sturgis as a cautionary tale of not listening to them. 29 cases and 1 death associated with it. Nationwide. I think I read that six people died in accidents traveling to/from Sturgis.
I wonder how many people die in a normal year traveling to/from Sturgis?
From RapidCity Journal:
Covid ain’t got shit on Harley-Davidson.
Our idiot governor is already talking about how Christmas will also be a lockdown event. Because he is already sure that none of us obeyed him over T-Giving and now we are all gonna die of the Rona.
On a positive note (if you are govt drone tired of being mocked by the plebes) Minnesoda might finally get to use the morgue it bought for $6M!
I’m going to have to order some more because you didn’t obey my last order!
There’s more than 2 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Or do we now find out that 2 weeks has always been bullshit…
Why couldn’t they re-deploy the stadium as the morgue – the Vikes have been playing dead.
Too embarrassing to watch the dead beat the Vikes.
*snickers, puts on foam cheese hat*
Well, who would a thunk that a stadium would turn out to be a bad deal? And when you are stuck in a bad deal, what is the smart move? That’s right, pull more people into the bad deal
For some reason tax revenue is way down this year. Time to make those outstate rubes start paying up.
Just take the funds or the roads for it
As much as people complain about Libertarians hating Roads they are willing to yank the funds from them like nothing flat.
You called it a couple weeks ago. The city is gonna be in deep shit very shortly.
Sadly, the way the election went, I think the metro legislators have realized they have more clout than the rest of the state combined. I expect them to use this knowledge to screw over the tax cattle in Greater Minnesoda bigly in the next session.
Between that and Biden’s administration probably giving Minneapolis the FEMA funds for the riots (that Trump denied), Minneapolis will be able to waste even more money.
If you read the article, the stadium deal was set up so that the city wouldn’t have to make any payments until after they had paid off their Convention Center debts. But what happened? They refinanced the Convention Center debts, so in a year they will have to pay the Convention Center debt AND the stadium debt.
No mention is made of what happened to the money that was supposed to have already paid off the Convention Center. I’m sure it was used wisely.
I thought they cut enough from the police budget?
They are trying, but there are still some wrong thinkers.
And while they cut money from the police, they are going to spend it immediately on other stuff.
Someone needs to find the government backed stadium that turned out to be a good deal. I am sure there is one somewhere.
They have all been good deals – for one side of the transaction. And always the same side.
The Colosseum. I’d be willing to bet that Rome has earned out on that one over the millennia.
That was my thought too. But even they thought it was worth more as a stone quarry at some point.
We recently picked up Grand Canyon ATCT and its equipment in a reorg (that made actual sense in terms of government reorgs).
That gives us a 3-4 hour drive time one way. The thing that makes absolutely idiotic about it? If we need two people to drive there, they must take separate vehicles cause of the Vid.
We can go work on local equipmemt together for 8 hours in close proximity, but travel we have to double our risks with a desert drive.
Fucking bureaucracy and the union.
We have test equipment capable of detecting airborne contaminants in parts per million (or so they tell me).
Where are the plague sniffer-outers? Why don’t we have machines constantly sampling the air and blaring out a warning signal on those HOT SPOTZ?
And risk having the truth be known?
Besides, none of the politicians’ in-laws own a company that makes them.
This is interesting:
“Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR)” Status Determines Mortality in Patients with COVID-19
That’s fascinating. Do most people who have a DNR also have some pre-existing condition they’re dealing with, or are DNR orders common once people reach a certain age regardless of health?
A few observations:
A DNR order on admission (which is what they are looking at) almost certainly means a living will stating that the patient wants one. DNR orders are hospital orders that expire when a patient is discharged, so they don’t carry over from one admission to the next. I haven’t really looked into it, but I think most DNR orders are written after the patient has been admitted; the exception might be patients admitted through the ED, who have already been worked up. But, ED docs are very resistant to DNRs, palliative care, etc. I am quite surprised at the number of DNR orders on admission at two hospitals – I think that must be some kind anomaly, perhaps related to state law.
DNR orders definitely scale with age, but that’s in part because co-morbidities, fragility, etc. scale with age. One of the interesting things about DNRs is that they are associated with class and race. Better off white people are more likely to consent to them that poor people, black people, Hispanics, etc. You can get DNRs without consent, but its typically a somewhat involved process that requires an ethics committee consult and two physicians signing the order. As you can imagine, there is a reluctance to do so with minority patients.
I’m not sure there’s really much to be taken from the study, to tell you the truth. DNR orders are a proxy, of sorts, for the patient’s survivability, but I’m not sure that’s not putting the cart before the horse. Mortality is always higher for patients with DNRs. When you say “let this one die”, they are more likely to die, regardless.
Every time my mom goes to the hospital, I take all the paperwork, Health Directive, Power of Attorney, blah blah blah.
Very wise. If she’s going to the same hospital, they should already have all that scanned in to her medical record, but that relies on people doing their job.
Nope, not the same hospital, but I’m not going to be the one standing over her bed trying to make a decision because I’m a doofus.
Or, in the alternative, trying to fight with doctors and nurses who don’t take my word for it that she’s DNR.
behold 2020
https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1333622626409979905
we live in a very very superstitious and aesthetic age.
We didnt think the dark ages was long enough so we are attempting them again.
They should wear an onion belt and drape some garlic around their necks for good measure also.
We’re heading in that direction at warp speed.
Which I am going to start doing when I go to the market.
I can always count on a 10/10 song from Sloopy. I think we are the same model of Tulpa.
“The pandemic continues.”
The vaginitis pandemic, that is.
I had a mask and lock down discussion with a reasonable friend of mine.
He boiled his mask arguments around “the social contract.” You protect me by wearing a mask even if it’s not effective.
I made the point that I do care about my fellow men, but if I’m at risk for something this “dangerous” then I should be taking care of my self and not relying on others to keep me safe.
The masks don’t work arguments don’t convince people, even thought this guy knows better. I think since it became a symbol of “Trump” and wrong think most normies treat you like a villain who wants to kill Grandma.
You protect me by doing something that doesn’t protect me?
OH i see they protection they seek is from being confronted by WRONG THINK!
protection they seek is from being confronted by
WRONGTHINK!FTFY
The complete dismissal of “The Government shouldn’t be able to force me to cover my face” argument is infuriating. Of course some people will see that as tyrannical and wait until they try sticking people with whatever concoction they cooked up in the crony labs.
I’ve gotten a bit of a pause with the question, “Has anything bad ever happened because a government ordered people to wear certain pieces of cloth?”
…or when a segment of a nation’s society felt aligned and empowered by wearing a piece of cloth?
Why stop at masks and shuttering businesses, then? If his safety is paramount because the social contract says so, what limiting principle is there? Or is he ready to say enough when that line of thinking inevitably expands to include whatever’s next on the totalitarian agenda?
We live in a society where nobody wants responsibility and everyone wants to pawn off hard work to others or government. Why would you expect people to suddenly man up about this shit?
I make the point that I don’t care about my fellow man if they are fucking idiots – society would be better off without idiots.
He made the mistake of bringing up speed limits with me and how they protect others. Wrong audience.
By the end of the conversation he admitted that the mask is useless, but I’ll wear it anyway.
I told him I’ll wear one when my job or other private business require it as long as they have and I have a choice.
This guy is reasonable on most topics. I think because he has no skin in the game he wants to do the “right thing”. To him wearing an ineffective mask is a symbol of being a good and virtuous person.
It’s not such a hardship, so why can’t everyone wear the ribbon.
Is there a line anywhere for him? Will he wear a fishbowl over his head?
If Top. Men. tell you what to do, you don’t balk. You thank them and obey.
If only it were just the masks we are debating! They’ve become important in social signaling because they’re instantly visible by their presence or absence.
So the virtuous wear their masks on TV, the commercials show a happy healthy society of caring mask-wearing individuals. That’s easy, quirky, and fun.
It’s not so welcome to show Lockdown effects, which are far worse than grudgingly wearing Talismasks: footage of old people dying of isolation, suicides from despair, loss of businesses and livelihoods, life on hold.
Why are my concerns about societal harms from lockdowns automatically less important than their claims to be concerned about societal harms of COVID?
Masks are equivalent to TSA Security Theatre. Inconvenient and highly visible. That way you feel like you’re actually doing something, and you can see if other people are doing it too.
Because you don’t believe in this thing called “Science” (sarc).
I can’t stand being lectured by idiots about what the science says (it talks you know).
To the Left, Science is a group of human beings. It’s a cultish priesthood, and what they say is true because they said it. And it only includes select government-employed scientists – citing the work of any other scientist doesn’t count.
I’ve been toying around with two questions to ask in response to the “I Love Science” crowd:
– “If we have to listen to the government-appointed experts, then was the Patriot Act actually a good idea? The government’s top experts on national security and counter-terrorism all agreed that it was a necessary step to prevent more deaths from terrorism, so what right do you have to disagree?”
– “All the top scientists in Nazi Germany would have told you that Jews are objectively an inferior race, so wouldn’t German citizens be obligated to agree with that lest they be called anti-science?”
meh. It’s a Malthusian death cult. Their ideology is purely religious and fanatical those examples you just gave are different because their top men didn’t do either.
Exactly. Expecting them to see the underlying principle instead of the very distinguishable principals? Wasting your time.
the masks aren’t going away.
he’d be happy like a pig in shit in saudi arabia.
So, in too-local news a local blog I used to read, and who did promote me once upon a time, has been red-pilled. I know it’s not much, but I didn’t know how much seething resentment there is out there for the KC mayor’s lockdown.
Mornin’ MOJO! I’m seeing much less of that up here and more of a head-shaking acquiescence. It is disheartening but our lock-downs haven’t been so severe, yet. Hell, I’ve donned a gaiter for work now because it is a company-wide mandate. I pull it off every time I get about 20 feet away from anyone because I’m a rebel like that. Not being able to see peoples faces and read their expressions in conversations is not great, especially as an older person. I’d wager that the main reason that everyone is agreeing with this charade is the Sword of Damocles hanging over liquor store closures.
Good morning, Festus!
I don’t wear one in the grocery store I go to. I wear one in CVS and Walmart. I was maskless in Target and was panickedly stopped by an employee. “Ma’am, do you have a mask?” “Yep. Can’t wear it.”
*hangs head* Yes, I was a coward and didn’t say, “Won’t” wear it.
But yes, I see resigned acceptance also. Every once in a while I see someone without a mask.
You protect me by wearing a mask even if it’s not effective.
Can’t you just pray for me?
Oh, right. It doesn’t count if nobody can see you do it.
Same amount of evidence as systematic racism!!
Im sure the media will be all over this today.
https://spectator.org/pennsylvania-bombshell-biden-99-4-vs-trump-0-6/?paywall=0&fbclid=IwAR1KsFQ5p5PZJf2NLe0ttYqE5MScU75oUOZ2ela4pV-5hwDAI2H38QVSQ7w
Yes it is the same kind of evidence of systemic racism. The question is, why is that suddenly plausible?
It is in the same category, statistics. It is not the same kind. If the argument was Biden got lots more votes than Trump in these places: therefore fraud must be the answer because everybody is equal and has the same motivations, so any significant disparity must be attributed to wrongdoing not choice or aptitude. That would be the same kind of evidence.
In this case it is more as though you examined 1000 Universities across 20 years and found that 7% of the applicants on average were black, with an admission rate of 80% and a graduation rate of 65%. Then found 4 or 5 of those Universities, which had been in line with the others for 19 years, suddenly in one year had 5% black applicants and 2% admissions and 1% graduation. That would prompt an intelligent person to ask what happened during that one year in those places, and if you discovered that the guy processing the applications or the guy entering the grades was in the KKK you’d likely conclude that racism factored in and start looking into how he might have interfered.
The leftist talking point is that many black precincts actually voted over 99% for Biden, and that trying to throw these ballots out is in fact attempted racist disenfranchisement of “Black” voters.
Here’s an example from the Austin Chronicle:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/comics/2020-11-27/jen-sorensen-comics/
“Systemic racism is OK when we do it.”
Its neither the same kind nor same amount of evidence as for systemic racism.
Systemic racism, to the extent it relies on evidence at all, relies on the persistent and consistent statistical underperformance of certain “racial” groups in American society.
This is the opposite – large and transient statistical anomalies. The election is bumping along at 52 – 48% and wham! – a huge batch of votes is tallied in a very short period of time that is 99.4 – 0.6%.
Its not completely impossible, but it is extraordinary and requires some explanation. Which I have not heard forthcoming.
I think Jerms was being sarcastic and mocking the media & those who still follow their talking points.
Also related, I’m not positive on the timeline, but it appears Dominion may have started wiping machines in GA in direct violation of the judge’s order to preserve every machine for 10 days. Not exactly what I’d expect an innocent party to do.
Pretty sure Jerms was taking a swipe at Juris who has made that comparison repeatedly of late.
those who still follow their talking points
I included Juris in this.
First off, I’m not following the media talking points – so just fuck yourself right off about that. If anyone is following talking points it is the people that can’t suck up Trumps words fast enough.
Secondly, it isn’t the VOTES being called into question by the stats, but the reporting of the counts. Again, going back to Philly, yes a HUGE swing in mail-in ballots favored Biden – presumably counted AFTER the polls closed (I don’t know, but I don’t think PA started counting those before unlike other states). In the final tally, the Philly vote didn’t end up looking substantially different from the ’16 election. So if that is shenanigans, it is shenanigans within historic norms.
The “testimony” of Guiliani and Braden in both PA and AZ does not appear to be under oath, whereas the lawsuit Guiliani filed in PA specifically foreswore claims of fraud. You know why – because Rudy didn’t want his balls ripped off for lying to a court. He can ‘color’ his talk in the media and to unofficial hearings no end and at no risk.
Secondly, it isn’t the VOTES being called into question by the stats, but the reporting of the counts.
Disagree, I think. The question being raised isn’t whether the big dumps of pro-Biden votes were properly counted legal votes, its whether they were legal votes at all.
That is POINTEDLY not the issue raised by Giuliani in the failed PA lawsuit. Though it is a common enough talking point in the Trump friendly environs.
The statistics of the reporting do NOT in any way determine the validity/legality of the votes being counted. If there is illegitimacy to be uncovered, this isn’t going to cut the mustard.
But it is absolutely the issue being raised in other states, including WI and MI. Those cases are explicitly about illegal votes, as in, votes that do not meet statutory requirements.
Just to be clear, I think this academic. The clock has effectively run out. I see zero likelihood that the courts or legislatures will change the EC results in any state by the looming deadlines.
Secondly, it isn’t the VOTES being called into question by the stats, but the reporting of the counts.
I guess I was ahead of myself by a couple of weeks.
Can somebody explain to me how this reporting system works and how it could get out of sync with the actual vote counts?
If it’s not that it’s out of sync, but only that the reports are being done in very weird and statistically aberrent ways, can somebody explain what the heck is causing that?
I’ve heard nothing that has peeled back the black box covering the vote tallying process and exposed the perfectly innocuous reasons for the weirdness that I saw on the day after the election.
Perfect Christmas decoration for 2020 and possibly the best I’ve ever seen.
Lol good stuff
Some people still have time to do fun shit…
Same house on Halloweenie
I just came in my pants.
@l0b0t, happy birthday! I think?
Happy birthday L0B0t
The Biden administration will be filled with reasonable centrist adults
Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden’s new appointee as director of the Office of Management and Budget, spread baseless conspiracy theories after the 2016 election insisting that Hillary Clinton lost to President Trump because Russian hackers flipped votes.
The 50-year-old president of liberal think tank Center for American Progress and long-time Clinton loyalist served as an unpaid adviser during her 2016 White House bid and repeatedly claimed in the weeks after Trump’s victory that Clinton only lost because of Kremlin operatives.
In a series of tweets, some still online Monday, Tanden claimed the “Russians did enough damage to affect more than 70k votes in 3 states,” referring to Clinton’s losing margin in the Rust Belt states of Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
As first reported by Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald, Tanden began just days after the election baselessly suggesting that Russian hackers had switched votes from Clinton to Trump.
Not like those crazy partisan whackjobs in the Trump White House.
I heard she went through a twitter purge after finding out that she had been selected.
The Biden administration is basically the living embodiment of that meme where the Arabs are about to be droned and say “I hear the next one is coming from a woman. Really makes you feel like you are a part of history.” Or, alternatively, “genocide, but now with more vagina”.
Not surprising that he’s going to keep Gina Haspel on
I thought Gina Haspel had been killed in the firefight in Germany? Or was in Gitmo charged with treason?
Centrist == somewhere left of Karl Marx
Heh.
Oh yeah? and where is Putin in that picture!? Your meme isn’t funny because it makes me feel bad / prog
Putin was the dog taking the picture…
New Mexico’s next lockdown phase color codes counties by case rate… nine new cases per hundred thousand residents within a fourteen day period trips the code red, reducing “nonessential” store capacities to 25% and forbidding indoor dining. Not deaths, cases. That’s around sixty people in Bernalillo. Have fun in permanent lockdown, idiots.
So barely a blip on a statistical radar shuts it all down. SCIENCE!
What the hell ever happened to arbitrary and capricious being a no no when it comes to government action?
The governor being arbitrary and capricious doesn’t even phase me anymore. Of course she’ll act to maximize suffering to minimal benefit for anyone. What really cheesed me off are the bootlicking apologists in the replies lauding her. It’s still consent of the governed here, and they’re content to be governed good and hard.
Also, Albuquerque is bound to be the destination of covid-positive patients traveling here for treatment. Will the covid commissars differentiate on the basis of actual residency? Wanna bet?
“Never heard of it…”
/Hawaiian Judge
Brogolio, a true Davos man, apparently has no time to comment on genocide in Yemen or in China (this from the man who played the game of “death squads? what death squads?” when he was a bishop in Argentina during the military junta), but can totally write a book chastising the poors for daring to question their leaders about shutdowns. You might as well have Nike’s CEO as pope.
The senate minority leader delegitimizing himself.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/11/30/schumer-uses-covid-to-claim-its-imperative-for-senate-to-hold-hearings-for-bidens-cabinet-before-hes-inaugurated-n287348
There is a reason that the counting of electors comes after a new Congress you dolt. There is also a reason you don’t get to vote on a not-yet-elected persons cabinet.
The worst thing that could happen for the Democrats is for the recent surge to die off before Biden is sworn in. If the numbers are already trending down it will be hard for him to say that his policies are why things got better.
Who am I kidding? The MSM will say that his election alone was enough to quell the surge of the Rona in the Upper Midwest.
LOL. It’s raging all around us! It’s going to surge dramatically even if it completely disappears, because SCIENCE!
Just like the tides began to recede with the election of the Obamessiah.
If all Americans would simply start wearing masks and stop murdering and stealing things would be better. There ought to be a law.
You almost feel bad for Bernie.
impossible
Not really.
Fuck that guy, the humiliation goes hand in hand with selling out.
Sell Out you say?
Exactly what I thought it would be.
Not one mention of Romania’s national day today. Disapoint.
The fucking park was full of randos disrupted my daily walk
I see you now have a monument like the one aliens put in Utah.
only with poorer workmanship
You’re saying only stupid aliens would visit Romania?
Gypsy aliens
This is SCOTLAND’S DAY ya wee cunte!
1st of December is Scotland’s day? Since when?
How do you celebrate Great Union Day? I hope you find an attractive and willing partner to help you form a great union!
the odds of that are 0 give or take 0
It’s not such a hardship, so why can’t everyone wear the ribbon.
Sounds like my brother’s hipster douchebag son. He lives in Seattle and (apparently) makes a ton of money working for Lyft. Not as a driver. They were on the speaker phone one evening, and he was blabbing on and on about how it’s no big deal, and when they take the dog to the dog park, everybody wears their masks and social distances, and they just order food in all the time. It’s like a cool adventure!
I had to leave the room before I started asking him how he felt about the people whose lives and businesses were being completely destroyed.
A lot of the same with this guy. He is retired at 55 and doesn’t need to make a living anymore. He transplanted from San Diego and is still getting used to being surrounded by a diverse opinion on things political.
I’ll take him to a few really redneck events this summer.
He is a nice guy and his wife and mine are friends. I can cut people a lot of slack.
Lee and Arnie always played with spirit. I liked Paine Stewart later on. Jack and Tom were more like automatons. The wee South African was good for chuckles.
I ‘member him, good times, who played up a tree at Pebble? Nick Faldo, great times !
Nick in a tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CIRAl2l7aU
Every researcher can find some personal shame in this 1956 Shannon essay “The Bandwagon” and in Peter Elias’ 1958 “Two Famous Papers”. Both timeless and domain general (unfortunately). Both here in their single page glory:
https://twitter.com/rlmcelreath/status/1333752489892589573
Pussy power!
President-elect Joe Biden named key members of his economic team on Monday, with the long-expected announcement of Janet Yellen as treasury secretary along with three other women in top roles on a diverse team that will help him navigate the nation’s punishing fiscal headwinds in hopes of building an economic recovery.
Biden named Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget, elevating Tanden, the CEO and president of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, into the top ranks of his administration. Tanden would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American to become director of the Office of Management and Budget if confirmed by the Senate.
Their magical vaginas will heal the economy and make us all rich beyond our wildest dreams. Vaginas of color are extra special magic.
Vaginas of color are extra special magic.
No idea what you are talking about.
the first woman of color and first South Asian American
They’re white when the narrative demands it, and POCs when the narrative demands it.
WTF is a South Asian? Are these fucking globalists so anti nations they can’t be specific? Is this some way to hide that she is from one of those vest clacking countries?
Catchall term for Pakistani / Indian / Bangladeshi / Sri Lankan.
Her parents were immigrants from India.
Or Aryan if that works for you
We got a badass over here.
https://twitter.com/Lyde15/status/1333703066848256005
LOL
That guy needs the atomic wedgie treatment.
If you ignore the screaming brat on Twitter, it’s actually an interesting question though.
If we’re only talking movies, then I’m going with the MCU, because it’s been crowding out good sci-fi and action movies for years, and shows every sign of continuing to do so forever.
If we’re talking about the entire story, well, I’m not going to miss my chance to scribble over Harry Potter. Future generations will thank me.
For me HP is probably the least entertaining of the lot. never read the books though.
I agree that Harry Potter is the least entertaining, but Harry Potter is over and done with. I can ignore it (and I do.)
The MCU though, is sucking all the oxygen out of the sci-fi room. And it’s not going to stop until Disney has fucked every last cent out of the corpse.
Bullshit. Disney making MCU movies does not prevent anyone out there who would otherwise be making what you want to see from doing so. It is possible that fear of the SJW crowd prevents it, but that is not at all the same thing and you won’t get rid of them by ending Marvel.
I’m going with deleting anyone who thinks we should be deleting books or films they don’t like.
well it is about removing conservative nerds in the end, not books
He is a nice guy and his wife and mine are friends. I can cut people a lot of slack.
My brother’s kid is a good guy, I assume. He’s just completely oblivious to the world outside his bubble.
Not sure if drugs may fall out with this story, but looking over the recent Supreme Court ruling:
Tequila bar owner registers it as a religion in bid to legally open during Tier 3 lockdown
Looks like there may still be some life left in that fallen land.
Awesome
And that’s in the UK. Someone needs to forward this to that bar on Staten Island.
‘The Church of the Four Hundred Rabbits’…
LOL. Great name.
There’s a reason for the name.
I actually knew the reference, but not the whole story. Interesting. Thanks, fellow beer lover!
No idea what you are talking about.
“Tanden would be the first woman of color and first South Asian American to become director of the Office of Management and Budget if confirmed by the Senate. ”
Maybe she’ll make the trains run on time.
Seems we will get our female overlords finally.
Not what I meant when I said I wanted chicks on top of me.
LOL
oblig: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGGZ11D9EE
-1 Xenia Onatopp
the masks aren’t going away.
Exactly. “Random Public Health Expert” this morning was hitting it hard.
“Just because there is a vaccine, you shouldn’t think you can stop doing your plague theater rituals. You’ll still have to wear the mask. Because you can’t be too safe.”
The helicoptered kids finally are old enough to serve in government and are just doing for us, what mom and dad did for them.
Risk to these people is a dirty word. Life should be carefree with roads paved in unicorn shit, money trees planted in every house and your desire to do what you want should never be questioned.
We can only achieve that if we just follow their rules right now.
“Follow your dreams” should be in the running as the biggest lie told to young Americans.
“Follow your dreams” is in the top 5
“Happily ever after” is number 1
“You can be anything you want to be.”
“If you don’t give up, you WILL succeed.”
the masks aren’t going away. – given enough surveillance in a few years mask may be illegal
don’t worry the mandatory app on your phone they make you download for “contract tracing” will protect you from the virus.
Once the anti-Biden protests start up, the masks will be banished.
What will be even more aggravating is that the anti-Biden rallies probably won’t feature any of the wanton destruction that is part of the antifa’s playbook. But the authorities will want to know who was at those rallies undermining the State and masks will become a bad thing.
Risk to these people is a dirty word. Life should be carefree with roads paved in unicorn shit, money trees planted in every house and your desire to do what you want should never be questioned.
The New Zealand story i linked yesterday featured some govt apparatchik using, with no sense of irony or self-awareness whatsoever, the phrase, “our public health and safety culture.”
Yeah, about that…
“People know very little about the money system or money institutions and mostly believe in money myths.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1333769112074522624
Interesting that on the 2nd question, the young and poor did the best.
They think this is something to celebrate, apparently. Sums up the earlier discussion about the assholes who are pro-lockdown because they suffer no actual hardships from it. Life is just all about drinking cosmos while you work from home on your laptop, eating Chinese takeout, and buying a bunch of shit from Amazon – that’s not so bad, is it?
It is bad actually. No bars no travel
Ask all the people who’ve checked out, looking at an unending future of that banal garbage. Oh wait…
Also that person is living in filth.
Yes. I’m far from a neat freak, but chris,t even when I was a young single guy my apartment was never that squalid.
You don’t field day your house every Thursday night?
Just another reason that Parris Island is inferior to San Diego. Failure to fully brainwash for life.
field day your house – i can not even guess what that means
In the jarhead lexicon, “field day” is an intense cleaning session. Traditionally it is done on Thursday night for several hours with barracks room inspections on Friday morning. If you failed, then your weekend liberty was gone and you’d spend your Saturday cleaning all day.
Some of the more assholish room inspectors when I was at NAS Pensacola would throw all of your stuff out the window if you failed, mattresses and all.
I remember in ROTC being told my M1 was dirty. Went back in the cleaning shed, shot the shit for a few minutes but didn’t run a patch through, went back to same inspector and was told “much better soldier.”
It means marine recruits get to scrub the barracks in this context. It is an ironic usage of a term that has fallen out of use in its original context. Originally a field day was a day students got out of the classroom with athletic games and contests (a day on the field). In other words a special fun day.
It ain’t just recruits.
Happened every week even out in the fleet. Of course the field days weren’t as intense in Okinawa as they were in boot camp or (like Chip said) at your primary training station.
But even relaxed field days meant that you were going to clean all sorts of silly things that normal humans don’t. For example, I remember taking air vents off the wall so you could properly scrub them on the inside and outside before putting them back on.
You haven’t met my mother.
We used to polish the 1950s era brass door handles at Keesler. Didn’t help when I asked “but sir you always said you can’t polish a turd”….
Weeds and seeds the rest of the weekend for me.
Weeds and seeds – would you people stop it with the obscure jargon?
Lol. Pulling weeds and seeding the grass just doesn’t flow
Oh dear god yes, the goddamned air vents were always a problem. Those things are dust magnets and it seems like, no matter how much you clean them, there will be more after a few minutes.
I can remember having to remove the shower drain covers to get them nice and shiny with Brasso. There is no earthly reason to do that, but one of the staff sergeants would always specifically look at them.
Okinawa was indeed not so bad. Gunny Morris used to tell us “Just make sure it looks tidy, no trash anywhere, and smells nice, and you’ll pass”. The one exception to that was some real bullshit. His Holiness will appreciate this story….so our squadron had an IG inspection in Oki, which is a massive pain in the ass. They inspect EVERYTHING – your working areas, squadron buildings, barracks, uniform inspections, drilling, everything. Well, we had just gotten a new sergeant major, and I swear the monitor loves sending crusty old grunt sergeants major to the air wing just to piss everyone off. So before he even arrived, he thought we were a bunch of soft air wing pussies and hated us. So on the day of the IG barracks inspection, the general took one look at first deck and immediately failed us. There was just one problem with that – first deck didn’t belong to us. It was Stinger’s deck. We lived on second through fourth decks. Stinger wasn’t getting inspected so they didn’t do shit. Well, this enraged SgjMaj Smalls and we started field daying constantly. Formation outside the barracks at 0430 every morning, go clean. We’d clean until 0600, go to PT, come back and clean more until 0800. Go to work. Get back from work in the afternoon, get chow, have another field day formation at 1800. Clean until 2200. Rinse, repeat. No liberty on any day. This went on for at least two weeks. Even the staff NCOs had to be at the barracks at 0430 in formation, which pissed them off like you wouldn’t believe.
It’s Manhattan, that’s a given.
Yeah, close a fucking cabinet already.
I’m a damn shut-in and the isolation has at times caused even me to fray.
Any murder of a mask mandator or lockdown longer is justified homicide.
$9 newsstand?! What is that, 50¢ per cartoon (the only bearable feature and then only sometimes)?
Who the hell would pay $8.99 for the New Yorker?
New Yorkers, or people who fervently wished they were, I guess?
I can buy real nice and soft toilet paper cheaper than that, so not me…
One should never have more than 10 icons on one’s desktop. Discuss.
You’ve never met my wife.
If it were only limited to desktop icons, but the 57 Chrome tabs is simply too much.
“Chrome”
Whycome you use spyware?
Serious question – what less spy-ish browser do folks recommend?
If you’re not using anything other than vanilla websites, there are plenty of options. The problems arise when using sites with more complicated interfaces like online schooling.
I particularly enjoy going to a cooking blog and get notified that the fingerprint scanning has been blocked. Just wanted to say that. Has no bearing on what you said.
I use firefox with a number of add-ins to lock down the behaviour, and a pihole instance to prevent telemetry that might escape my attempts to scour the settings of it.
If a website wants me to grant it too many permissions, that site gets closed.
Because like it or not, Chrome is actually compatible with almost every website out there and I’m currently locked into gmail.
I habitually save to desktop so I’ll remember to delete shit and then I forget to remember until it’s too cluttered to find what I need.
Look, just because east european PCs can only handle 8 desktop icons doesn’t mean your limitations need to be exported.
You wouldn’t be hoarding kilobytes, would you, tovarich?
I’m the one responsible for distributing them to people in need.
Your questioning of me tells me you are a wrecker.
It is convenient to add icons to the desktop rather than going through Steam menus to start each game, and I can’t delete the games from local memory because just because I haven’t played in 6 months (or 3 years) doesn’t mean I won’t go back and finish the game someday.
Desktop? Icons? Are you talking about the shell prompt?
Look, just because your rig is out of the 70’s doesn’t mean no one else upgraded.
I dont see my desktop, but generally I agree. In linux, I dont. Work windows desktop, uncountably many.
5
Windows puts seven on it’s own. Okay two are desktop.ini, but I show hidden files.
But why are people fussing over desktop items. Don’t tell me you actually launch things from there?
I dislike the look of clutter. I have very few things on my desk and very few things on my desktop. And try to minimize the number of items in my inbox.
You would probably faint at the sight of my desk then. Its cluttered but everything as a purpose.
And how do the 59 items on my sprawling desktop impact you?
I believe everyone should follow my superior ways.
Well, if you ever manage to have a superior way, we’ll still need more than your belief.
I guess UCS is not getting a cushy State job in the coming
Noul Imperiu Dac.
also is that a random number or did you count?
I let the computer count.
Mine is massively cluttered. There’s a lot of “sign and return” work that I do, as well as “review this document and make sure it’s correct” work that gets saved to the desktop because traversing my folder tree to get to the appropriate folder would take longer than actually signing or validating the document. I also have to upload the document to outlook to send it back, which means the desktop is superior (drag n drop). I go through and clean it all out every other week or so, when I can no longer easily find the latest document.
If we had a half decent database, my workflow would change immensely.
I have not noticed that Windows puts 7 on its own. I have 2: thispc and recyclebin
I too show hidden files.
This place has warped my mind. Read that as thiccpc. I need more coffee.
Well, with the right case mods…
User Folder; “This PC”; “Network”; “Recycle Bin”; “Control Panel”
Let me guess, you don’t turn on the desktop items.
That’s possible. My file explorer says they’re all turned on, however.
Network and Control Panel are in my file explorer.
In any case, weep.
I delete all but one of those. I have launchy to get to all of those places.
I ported Clippy to handle my Office tasks.
That sounds like overcomplicating your installation.
My icons are about 20 – but then the folders underneath those icons are out of control sometimes.
BREAKING: PAUL KRUGMAN IS AN ASSHOLE
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1333774429625733127
Happy Birthday l0b0t!
Just hours after Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to ban outdoor dining at L.A. County’s 31,000 restaurants over COVID-19 safety concerns, she visited a restaurant in Santa Monica, where she dined outdoors, FOX 11 has learned on Monday.
Sheila Kuehl can fuck off and die.
As the US prepares for the first round of vaccinations to tackle Covid-19, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on the public to “be part of the solution” and get vaccinated once it is available.
Fuck off Fauci.
On Monday a state representative, John Becker, of Clermont County, filed 12 articles of impeachment, with the support of three others – Candice Keller of Middletown, Nino Vitale of Urbana and Paul Zeltwanger of Mason.
Good.
The impeachment inquiry for the Clown Prince was withdrawn.
Draped over the diner’s normal sign is a giant banner that reads “The French Laundry” and “Patio Dining,” complete with the restaurant’s signature font and color scheme. Underneath the banner is another one that announces the diner’s normal outdoor dining service.
Beautiful.
Ugh, ugly old Zelda is still around?
Regarding the county supervisor some in my family have white knighted her actions. “She was allowed too!” Etc.
I point out if she is voting to shut things down because she truly believes it is dangerous then she shouldnt be going there to you know…engage in the dangerous act.
Didn’t matter. People are retards
That’s a good touchstone for determining if someone is just aggressively misinformed, or actively demoralized.
This.
“allowed to”? Christ, that’s basically saying “She is our superior, and we mustn’t question our betters!”
It’s a long meme sir, but it checks out
https://twitter.com/AdamantAnarchy/status/1333431107115597830
The Furs first new album in 29 years is actually pretty damn good.
Fuck, the money printer is going plaid. TW: Washington Post
Oh good they made it cheaper by leaving out the direct payments, so it’s all direct transfers away from us to the connected and the vote cattle. Much more fiscally responsible. See government knows how to save money!
My first thought was “At least they kept it under a trillion.”
Setting the bar low, eh?
“centrist…..Mark Warner”
Oh get the fuck outta here with that.
That is going to be the new narrative. Drop the overton window over leftist and call it centrist.
Jim Webb was a centrist. Warner is a party hack.
They have been doing that for decades
True but we will be reminded of it on a daily basis until people agree with it.
Mark “I dutifully tow the party lion” Warner
how is mads mikkelsen a real person
https://twitter.com/empathwhore/status/1333332486508531714
https://twitter.com/tommyteaa/status/1333389921562877953
That second tweet reminded me of Moon Knight-core.
Somebody chundered all over the floor in the main floor washroom at work yesterday morning and the powers that be left the mess until I showed up 14 hours later. There was a haphazard “Out of Order” sign taped to the door. I love my job!
I don’t know what orifice chunder comes out of, but either way, that was a really awful way to handle it.
It’s what happens on your gap yah.
^^^^^ c.s get’s it!
Local man goes home sick after going what can only be described as #3.
Sounds like what a normal parent encounters between birth and 2 yrs old.
Monday morning.
That’s just wrong, you should call it Haz Mat, then stand back and watch,
There’s a new word to me.
Blowing chunks in Australian?
Ha. I’ll probably never use “puke” again. I’m tall so when I vomit the ground shudders. There is now no better way to describe a successful night of drinking.
“chundered” has too many syllables. I prefer “yakked” or “yuked”.
“toss your cookies”
“upchuck”
“barf”
And then there’s one I used in my pirate novel that I can’t remember right now.
I use “yak” in association with the cats. “Cat yak.”
Imma “Horked” man meself but of course let another autist lead the way…
Horked in Canadian means stole.
“Someone horked our clothes!”
Depends…
In NW Minnesoda too. “Horked” meant stole. But that may have been because of Strange Brew.
My buddies and I all used it back in the mid-’80s.
“Soviet sociopath Georgy Zhukov ” WTF? He was a Tank Wizard, and a good General, first, ahead of the Commie thing, and I hate Commies,
He was a butcher and a propaganda master. Shameless self promotion on a scale equal to Trump.
War is Hell, Total War is worse,
I want that in my Generals, no matter what Side I represent,
You want your generals to adopt a damn the casualties we have lots of peasants mindset? He butchered his own troops. His tactical ‘brilliance’ was to keep throwing troops in to lock the Germans in place and then shell the hell out of everything, including his own forces.
Sort of the anti-Patton: die for your country until we can make the other guy die for his.
Rumor is Garcetti is wanting to be my new boss at the DOT.
I hear tell that chocolate rations will be doubled!
I think the shop cats stole my earbuds. I now have no way to listen to music. I am peeved.