I don’t get to drop in much during the week what with working two jobs and keeping SP satisfied. But every once in a while, I try to give poor Banjos a break. Today is one of those times, so to all of you, “Hi dee ho, Neighbor!”
Birthdays today include a guy with a gold back; a guy whose name became a cliché; a guy who built bridges; the best actor in Airplane! and Beavis and Butthead Do America; a guy who proved that if you’re in opposition to Feynman, you’re likely wrong; a woman whose memory I cherish, since she told my first wife that she was not smart enough to be an academic; one of my favorite guitarists and a genuinely nice guy; a guy whom I always confuse with Paul Lynde; star of two of my favorite comedy TV series; and competition with Marianne Williamson for “Weirdest Team Blue Presidential Candidate.”
Now for the news.
Insert Stacy Abrams joke here.
Misleading headline. I am so shocked.
“Dear Nancy: Go fuck yourself. Love, Mike.”
Despite the rumors, this is NOT SP and me.
It’s not like they’re being petty for the sake of news coverage. Nossir.
Old Guy Music today is the obvious. Jolson bonus.
“Supreme Court reinstates restrictions on abortion pill”
Doesn’t seem that misleading.
Perhaps “SCOTUS removes special exemption for abortion pill” would be more accurate?
Most drugs don’t have to be picked up in person. In some places controlled substances do, but can be picked up at the pharmacy.
Bingo.
‘“Government policy now permits patients to receive prescriptions for powerful opioids without leaving home,”
I think that depends where you live.
And if you can find a prescriber willing to do it with all the scrutiny they face for, you know, helping their patients make medical decisions.
I’m against prescription requirements, except maybe for antibiotics and drugs that can’t be self-administered.
All that I know is that when I am in hospice care I pray that it will be me pressing that button and not some goddamned bureaucrat. Right to life? Sure. Right to death? Damn straight!
Pence declines to do Nancy’s hatchet work.
IMPEACH HIM.
No kidding. Just me or does that sound incredibly disgusting?
Work. Work.
Sure, but you can’t unsee it, can you?
I think the hashtag is #HANGMIKEPENCE
Peace and unity bitches
By unity do they mean one camp instead of multiple?
Left and Far Left.
Nancy’s hatchet work
Why would Pence need to do that work? It is as if the Dems don’t have Liz Warren for that.
Finger glove claps!
Fined 12k?
GTFO. Even if that’s Canadian money…
These tickets are getting thrown out of court left, right and centre.
It’s chaos here.
Good.
That is good. We will even forgive your commonwealth use of the spurious “e” and “u.”
Viva Frei was talking about these finest. He estimated that QC raised ~1 million Canuckistani dollars in lockdown fines in 3 days.
Legault is a disgrace of a man.
Dougie Doug says “hold my beer” 😉
“Astronomers just found the oldest supermassive black hole yet”
Something… something… Nanci Pelosi!
Something to Muse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-_mHedypEU
re: a comment from the overnight thread.
Like with Christmas and Easter, where there are bible passages that are regularly covered at those times, pastors should preach on 1 Samuel 8 the Sunday before election day.
Also v22 is God going full Mencken on the Jews.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Good one. Should go along with eliminating withholding taxes and moving the payment date to the week before election day.
It wouldn’t have surprised me if Pence had sunk the knife into Trump after Trump made him the fall guy for not kicking the delegates back to the states or whatever cockamamie idea they had thereby ruining whatever’s left of his political career but good on him.
He was the vp to Drumpfler. His career is over anyway.
UCS, I’m intrigued by the bread in a can, any particular brand you buy?
The only brand I can find is B&M.
It appears to be a thing in asia, and not just your moles asses bread.
But why?
I’m guessing lack of demand means few incentives for additional companies to enter the market. It is a regional food item most people will not have heard of and likely disregard unfairly because of the packaging.
For the record, from a local grocery store that carries it, boston brown bread is $2.99. On amazon, they charge $9.99. Same product, but the local store’s inventory is fresher.
I’m going to get a few cans to stick in the back of my storage building for the apocalypse and one as a conversation piece for my next fishing trip. Even if I like it I doubt I’ll ten bucks a can like it so that’ll be about it.
$3 a can is more reasonable for what you get.
Growing up on the sailboat, B & M Brown Bread was a staple and I love it to this day. A toasted slice with a shmeer of cream cheese is quite yummy. It’s also quite nice cubed for fondue or cubed and sprinkled through a bread pudding for a color/texture change.
Hey Iobot!
Howdy Festus. I hope y’all are well.
Down to six nights a week. Baby steps.
If you don’t write up a post about growing up thusly, I will sulk.
If you don’t write a book, I will sigh.
Don’t forget the canned cheese to go with it.
I’ve heard that it’s best when you leave in in the back of a closet to age for a few years first.
Canned cheese ages best when left under the driver’s seat over a summer.
That’s where I keep it, and it has the added benefit of leaving no room for anyone to plant a bomb there.
I shouldn’t be surprised that the rats display vast cheese wisdom…
Once we got some C Rations with canned bread and jam. It was a treat.
The MRE pouch bread and jelly was surprisingly better.
We used to call that Atomic bread .
The peanut butter substitute was not so good.
Baseball birthdays: starts with Kevin Mitchell and goes down hill fast. I thought yesterday sucked. This is awful. Tomorrow isn’t any better.
Good morning, Old Man!
I guess Canada felt left out of the Totalitarian Movement. Welcome, Canucks!
It sounds like the propaganda machines’ bearings are going bad. So much hysteria! So little of it landing.
Despite the Pence letter, the split is becoming wider. Who will be the first to leave? Texas?
Exciting times.
Have a great day, people!
“Canadian couple are fined $2,400 after wife, 24, walked her husband, 40, on leash to bypass COVID curfew”
No names or pics though.
James Newell Osterberg Jr. (not really)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmU343eBu0
24 and 40 eh? Man he really bounded up a league there.
And falls in the creepy side of the age difference guideline (half age + 7 = non creepy line).
Third of the age +7.
My wife was in elementary school when I was in the Army. We didn’t meet until many years later. Not as extreme as a Civil War pension marriage.
OMWC= 0/age + 7
Isn’t the real question – just how long have they been married?
Just celebrated their 50th anniversary.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-silent-as-resurfaced-tweet-from-nancy-pelosi-declared-that-2016-election-was-hijacked
However, on the eve of Robert Mueller’s appointment as a special counsel to investigate allegations of collusion between Russian officials and the Trump 2016 campaign, Pelosi tweeted: “Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.”
She was hardly alone.
How many hundred times did CNN repeat “hacked the election”?
I think it was 70% of Democrats believed the Russians hacked the voting machines in 2016. Which honestly, to me, is far more crazy than the actual real life GOP people I talk to. I know the whole Q thing involves hacked machines and server raids and THE KRAKEN and stupid stuff like that, but the actual meatspace GOP people I know who think it was stolen focus on the same stuff I do: swing states, bellwether counties, vote counting in secret, and all the other stuff that there used to be pictures and video of before Twitter purged all the wrong think. MI, PA, and WI mailed out ballots to everyone, and this opened up avenues for fraud that never existed before in an election.
I didn’t get one.
Apologies, it was a form to request a ballot that went out to all registered voters on Sept 1st.
I never got that either. I got a mailer from a PAC saying I could request an Absentee ballot, but that’s it.
They already knew your vote so they were able to save the postage. Your vote was counted, I’m sure.
Heh, they didn’t know my vote, but I know my vote was counted. Only 1 write-in vote for Kanye West in my township (I checked the results)
PA only mailed ballots to those who requested them, AFAIK. I didn’t receive one. I actually had applied for one for the primary, just to see what would happen, but because I’m not a registered D or R in PA, they refused to send me one, since PA has closed primaries.
Sleep mode malfunction again. Hard to sleep with gale force winds shaking the building like a dice cup. I ended up watching part of “aka Cassius Clay”. I had forgotten what a tough son of a bitch that guy was. Extremely interesting stuff, especially in light of the racialist Theater of the Absurd we have now. I can’t help thinking Ali would have taunted and heckled those idjits mercilessly.
They talked about Malcolm X a little bit referred to him as the most powerful and articulate black voice since Frederick Douglass.
I watched Gaslight last night, or did I?
Slow-paced but very good.
I thought I saw what you did there, but then again maybe not.
Greenwald on the mark.
I don’t take you people seriously.
“To be clear, the brutality the American people watched with shock and disbelief will not be tolerated by the FBI,” Steven D’Auntuono, the FBI Washington Field Office ADIC said on Tuesday.
“We are up to the challenge…The FBI will leave no stone unturned in this investigation,” he added.
The FBI has opened over 160 case laws, and D’Auntuono said “that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Democrats are “mad”… I guess the FBI are going to start doing their jobs now. They must’ve been on vacation these last few years.
There’s a word for selectively enforcing the law through government and targeting political opponents with government agencies. It’s right on the tip of my tongue.
SOP?
It’s interesting that to Trump’s most rabid fans he was an empty vessel into which they poured their hopes and desires while along he was really a cautious ‘90s Democrat with a penchant for the cut and thrust on Twitter and now he’s standing out of the way while they’re about to be savaged by the apparatus of the state. It’s going to be a hard awakening to reality for these people.
I’m not sure there’s anything Trump can do in his 7 days left in office. It’s become evident the Deep State runs amok and there’s no leash on the FBI. If the FBI appears to follow the Dem’s agenda, it’s only because their interests align.
…but he has the NUKULER KODEZ!
Look, for decades the nuclear codes were 00000000. Even now, the process requires calling the schmucks out at the launch sites to actually fire off the missiles, because no one actually wired a direct control from the presidents desk to some sort of automated launch system.
If they did, some foreign script kiddy would have nuked Nicaragua by accident years ago.
I recall a documentary from the 80s that shows it is just a button.
Yep, and that’s the really worrisome thing. Fun historical example: Julius Caesar really wasn’t all that violent and repressive as dictator. He mainly removed political enemies from positions of authority, he wasn’t much for killing them wholesale. Very popular among the lower and middle classes for his policies, absolutely hated by the aristocracy for those same policies.
But don’t worry, the elites of the Senate stabbed him to death, thus snuffing out his movement and in no way galvanizing his supporters to rally behind far more violent and repressive leaders in the future.
Caesar was a breath of fresh air compared to Sulla which is what we’re on a trajectory to get now, just a slightly kinder and gentler one.
a slightly kinder and gentler one…
Do you even know who Kamalama is?
I honestly can’t believe there was a time in my life I took the FBI as a serious competent organization.
They were totally and suddenly cool after Hoover left and COINTEL was wrapped up. Completely above board and impartial.
Sometimes I think the arch-conservatives are right at least, in a practical sense. America needs an external boogeyman in order to keep our vast security apparatus pointed outwards. In the absence of one, we’re turning it on ourselves.
Yep. When the Cold War was over, I had a feeling chaos would be forthcoming
What we need right now is a good old fashioned alien invasion, or a major war with a peer competitor to set everything right.
That you, Kruggie?
They’re very serious and competent. They just only do the things they want to do. The Left controls the entire apparatus of the State. Remember the IRS audits of Tea Party groups?
That music selection reminded me of this.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-says-she-had-traumatic-encounter-during-capitol-riot-where-she-thought-she-might-die
“It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that “many, many members of the House were nearly assassinated,” she told her followers.
“We were very lucky that things happened in certain minutes that allowed members to escape the House floor but many of us nearly and narrowly escaped death,” she added. “
“happened in certain minutes”
She’s referring to that woman being unnecessarily shot you know.
Why do they keep doing this? If they make 1/2 of the country guilty of ‘sedition’ and ‘treason,’ if they scream lies as loud as they can and those lies are picked up and continually repeated, you’re going to create a side with nothing to lose.
They want a truly serious incident so they can truly crack down which will produce more truly serious incidents which etc. Put tens of millions of people under extreme pressure and it’s inevitable.
?
Maybe, but I don’t think so. If they really wanted to provoke serious horrorshow, the progressives have had ample opportunity to pull a false-flag attack, and you can’t tell me that they wouldn’t get away with it.
I think that it’s more like; Progressives are a bunch of emotionally immature drama queens, and they need to feel that every trivial event in their empty lives is of epic scale, and that the least discomfort is an existential threat to their survival.
I’m not sure which is better.
Personally, I think the ancient and decrepit grifters in charge are desperate to protect themselves from getting held accountable while continuing their grift.
^^^THIS^^^
And they are willing to burn down the country and rule the ashes to keep it so.
From a political standpoint, I couldn’t pick between the two.
From a personal standpoint, I do take some small pleasure in thinking that the vile individuals who want to destroy me, are doing so because of their own abject misery.
That requires them to understand the consequences of their actions. They’ve never suffered them before, why would it start now?
Yep. AOC is my age. I knew dozens of girls like that who sit in politics or history class and just screech RACIST at every right of center opinion. We used to mock them, thinking they would grow out of it. Well they didn’t, and now they run the country.
And they want revenge on people like you….
“Some people did some things”
She’s been cribbing from Ilan Omar’s notes.
But the world is gonna end in
1210 years. So, what difference at this point does it make?And wouldn’t you be happy to know you wasted an entire year under lock down?
Maybe its good that she got to feel what the residents of Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Philadelphia, Atlanta, etc. experienced from the riots she justified all summer
“She said: ‘I didn’t even feel safe going to that extraction point because there were QAnon and white supremacist members of Congress who I felt would disclose my location and create opportunities to allow me to be hurt,’ she said, adding that she ‘didn’t feel safe around other members of Congress.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9141513/AOC-thought-going-die-Capitol-siege-thinks-GOP-House-members-it.html
The call is coming from inside the House!
Names, bitch or STFU.
https://youtu.be/_jI3BYCAGfs
escaped under sniper fire?
This sounds like Hillary Clinton’s “I was on a helicopter that got shot down/at in Bosnia” bullshit story…
Insert Stacy Abrams joke here.
I’m not sure she’d fit.
She’s what happens when the Hadron Collider doesn’t get it’s abortion pill.
Re education camps, forcible removal of children, cheering COVID deaths. What a ghoul
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pbs-employee-out-after-comments-on-re-education-camps-for-trump-supporters-removal-of-kids-revealed-in-project-veritas-video
Can drugs fall out of a ghoul’s ass?
Thanks, OM, for the music. As a kid I could enjoy the movies without having all of today’s lived experiences.
“A time to heal.”
Oh, Puh-leeeze.
Any word on when the jump to the top thing will be fixed?
When SP gets an envelope stuffed with Benjamins.
Just increase her allowance.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas plans to introduce an ordinance forcing the removal of the 2,891-square-foot sign on the 96-story Trump International Hotel & Tower if Trump is convicted of “treason, sedition or subversive activities.”
I see we are tempering our language. And you are not a serious person.
https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2021/01/bruce-willis-reportedly-asked-to-leave-store-after-refusing-to-wear-mask.html
Bruce!
Dude just don’t give fuck, about nothin, not even his acting, anymore.
how would anyone know he was bruce willis if he was wearing a mask?
Poor Sloop is still hiding in the sock drawer. Here, Friend, have a little gift from me to you. I played it yesterday and then played it some more. Buck-up, Big Guy! https://youtu.be/TlTKhPkZSJo
Exactly what I thought it was before I clicked.
Heh. Just noticed that the first letters of the url are TIT…
many of us nearly and narrowly escaped death,” she added. “
Dammit!
*flips keyboard*
If they’d had murder in their minds there would have been numerous firearms involved. That being said, the obvious truth is irrelevant even she herself almost certainly knows what she’s saying is nonsense.
Who you calling “ho”??! Oh, Never mind. Howdy, neighbor OMWC!
And good morning to all you early birds. 🙂
Good morning!
What if I’m a night owl stuck on a morning schedule for employment purposes?
Or?
Pomme d’Or?
That’s me in the foreground.
Losing your religion?
Right there in the spotlight.
Where did you get that? It has to be cover art from some Golden Age sci fi pulp.
Lucien Rudaux.
Thanks!
He was the vp to Drumpfler. His career is over anyway.
Blacklisted. His kids won’t even be able to get jobs.
You’re not even kidding.
How can “nice” lefties be OK with this?
Elections aren’t freaking death matches; the loser doesn’t get whipped through the streets and stoned to death, he just doesn’t win that round.
How can “nice” lefties be OK with this?
Even “nice” people deperson literally Hitler and his literally Nazi friends. Nice doesn’t save them from becoming evil.
Lord Blackadder:
[sarcastically] Perhaps Lord Melchett would like to whip me naked through the streets of Aberdeen?
Lord Melchett:
Oh I don’t think we need go that far, Blackadder…
Lord Blackadder:
[sarcastically] Oh too kind!
Lord Melchett:
No, Aylesbury’s quite far enough.
Anyone with the same last name must be purged. We can’t take the chance that one will slip through.
That image at the top disturbs me. How did the ants get into the pants?
ANTS IN PANTS!
/the Tick
ANTS IN THE PANTS!?
/Cartman
The second I saw that image, I knew I wanted it.
Some sort of “the Swiss are subhuman” propaganda?
Hey?! They don’t have anything remotely Swiss on.
*Narrows gaze*
How did your test go?
Negative. I have a mild case of the Non-Existent Flu.
Good to hear, but you don’t want to give the flu to your parents either.
Great news!
The negative test is good. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Flu can still be dangerous to the elderly bro. Be good, get well, and hope this plays out without any incidents.
Yeah, I have to figure something out this weekend, if I am not better.
The shorts? Hat? White shirt? Yodeling at each other across the alps?
Maybe they’re supposed to be Austrian.
The Hats R All Rong!
Advocates ask Health Canada to order Quebec to give Maimonides residents second COVID-19 vaccine dose
The note says that at the home, 102 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded among residents since the start of the pandemic’s second wave and 22 of them have died. Twenty-four staff currently have COVID-19, for a total of 110 since the second wave began.
So far, more than 80 per cent of nursing staff and 84 per cent of residents have received a first dose of the vaccine since the rollout began in December.
“The first thought and concern was with regards to the fact that there still is no date for the second dose and that there has been debate going on about protection,” Joyce Shanks, a member of the home’s advocacy committee, said of the note to families.
“Every single person who became infected with COVID had been inoculated.”
Let’s play Russian roulette with your dna for a completely ineffective protection against a low-risk disease!!
Whaddya say?
They want my dna, they gonna have to get it the hard way. 😉
do you want to make $5?
Is it really that hard?
Hey, at least they get $20 at the end.
We have an outbreak here. 14 dead so far out of 66 residents. Most of them four to a room. It’s heartbreaking. Most of those oldsters don’t even recognize their family members when they were allowed to visit but now they get to die, confused and very, very alone. Fuck this world.
That’s awful.
Again. I don’t get it. ONE year later and they still weren’t prepared? What’s going on?
Politics and science. What could go wrong?
Ii heard one doc saying one of the problems with residential care is that the staffers often work more than one facility, even for different companies. So the pool of nurses, orderlies, maids, cooks etc is effectively spreading and respreading through the network,
Other problem is that sadly, many nursing homes are already known for poor treatment of patients. The only thing to give these people a chance would have been to move them to their adult children’s homes last March, and it’s just not feasible for most.
I wish they could have had visitors instead of dying in isolation at a nursing home like my dad did in July.
Goddammit! Sorry ‘splodey Lady. I read it at the time and it didn’t feature. That’s awful.
jfc, I hope the fucking branch covidians don’t see this. I. Just. Want. This. To. End.
“Trump team will blame China lab for growing Covid-19 with ‘bombshell’ evidence as part of final salvos of president’s administration – but UK dismisses claim”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9140251/Trump-team-blame-China-lab-growing-Covid-19.html
The UK dismisses it because the CPP controls them. The British is now busy instructing people how to have sex.
People. The UK is done. Finished. Just like Canada. And Biden will finish off the USA.
People don’t care.
Most people are too busy dealing with the damage of COVID lockdowns on their own lives to even realize the inept credentialed mandarinate of the globalist movement are busy making sure their hold on power can’t be challenged ever again. I used to wonder when I read history about revolutions and the communist & fascist movements how so many people missed what was coming, and the answer was that they were just too busy trying to make a living, and only realized shit went south when it was already a done deal.
Salmon P. Chase was nominated to the SC by Lincoln ergo he was a good guy, right?
“A heckler told Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that she got ‘sexually excited’ while watching him cower under a desk during last week’s riot at the US Capitol.
The woman interrupted Schumer during his press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday. During the encounter, she is heard calling Schumer, who is Jewish, a ‘racist, anti-Semite’.
‘You’re nothing but a coward. Seeing you hide under your desk, I actually got sexually excited over it. That’s how much I loathe you. That’s how much I’m glad what they did.’
The woman also accused the New York senator of following the ‘socialist’ practices of Adolf Hitler.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9139885/Heckler-tells-Chuck-Schumer-got-sexually-excited-watching-hide-desk-Capitol.html
Moob fetish?
That woman is having the best time of her life. This is her opportunity to get her freak on.
There’s somebody for everybody, even if that somebody is a fat dude under a table.
Did Schumer really hide under his desk?
No excitement from me, only brought to mind some lyrics I heard a long time ago.
Day of Judgment, God is calling
On their knees the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings…
Oh Lord, yeah!
Well fuck…
The Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day parade has been cancelled this year. Just two years to flatten the curve…
To continue the litany of bullshit for 2021, the Great American Beer Fest for 2021 has been updated as well to remove the large in person beer fest portion of it.
“Joint Chiefs send memo to all U.S. troops condemning MAGA riots as ‘sedition’ after arrest of current and retired officers – and spell out that they ONLY follow ‘lawful orders’ in fresh warning to Trump”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9140419/Top-military-leaders-remind-troops-limits-free-speech.html
Did they send one to Pelosi?
Maybe this will convince conservatives to quit sucking off the military but I doubt it.
I guess there are two ways to interpret the circumstances leading to that:
1. Trump initiated conversations about actual illegal actions
2. The Joint Chiefs are playing politics and signaling
3. They want to keep their jobs with an incoming administration.
that’s a subset of 2.
It is well that the military is politicized. I am sure there will be no negative consequences.
Asking many troops are in Syria is apparently not a legal order.
Why do they keep doing this? If they make 1/2 of the country guilty of ‘sedition’ and ‘treason,’ if they scream lies as loud as they can and those lies are picked up and continually repeated, you’re going to create a side with nothing to lose.
True forgiveness can only come about through accepting and embracing the enormity of one’s sins against God and Man. Repent ye of your sins and heresies. Come back to the True Faith of all powerful beneficent government. Come crawling on your belly, and beg for redemption.
Of course, none of that will save you, and you’ll have to be canceled anyways.
It is “sedition” and “treason” to disagree with leftists. What could go wrong?
I knew it.
Iran Is Al Qaeda’s New Home Base, Pompeo Says
Office prog told me I was full of shit when i told hime we would be in two new wars by the end of 2021.
I fucking hate being right sometimes.
Sunni AQ in Shia Iran? Get the fuck outta here…he knows that’s horseshit and he also knows that people don’t know the difference.
Shia and Sunni sharing beds. Someone has no standards.
Reality:
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1348704640486014982
The Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/ron-paul-banned-from-facebook-for-inciting-personal-responsibility
This shit will accelerate. I’ve been culling my FB friends as some of them have turned out to be rabid. They don’t or refuse to see the danger in turning the already unconstitutional security apparatus of the government against their political foes.
I’ve unfollowed my leftie acquaintances (I can’t say friends) on FB so they don’t show in my feed, but I can go in and look at their posts. It’s disappointing, but I feel it’s important to know what they’re saying and thinking.
I know what they’re saying.
They’re repeating exactly what is being said on ABC, CBS, CNN, etc….
They’re generally of four categories or combinations of such:
1) Middling Ivy League grads
2) Bureaucrats
3) Schoolteachers
4) Upper middle class for their entire lives
If you attempt to offer a counter-argument, even non-political, you will be accused by them or their acquaintances as racist, a MAGA idiot, a white supremacist, etc…
It’s all labeling by people who are desperate to virtue signal how good they are for a variety of reasons. They’re scared of what they have to lose or broken inside or just plain mean.
The masks are really off now.
I’m looking forward to farmers and truckers cutting off supplies to proggy havens.
Cuz I think that’s where this ends up.
Yep, sure, ADM, Cargill, ConAgra, Beatrice, etc. will surely be on board.
I had a Gary moment talking with a cousin online about the travel ban and pointing out it wasn’t a Muslim ban, just like Gary does. She got emotional and left the conversation, because, “I know a lot of Somali Muslims, and they aren’t terrorists!”…which wasn’t even what I was talking about. I am Gary.
Tell her that I know some Somali muslims and all of them absolutely despise the Clintons, both him and her.
I’ve already done that – some I started ignoring in 2016, others this past summer. I’ve resolved not to be anyone’s propaganda speech audience.
I’ve been logging on to FB only sparingly lately. Last night I saw a post by one of my friends that said something like “I can’t wait until the virus disappears 10 days from now.” In the comments one of our acquaintances said “Just wow”, and then cut and pasted a thing about how people who said nothing about Nazis were still Nazis. No discussion, just straight to calling him a Nazi.
In 2016 people were saying that Trump supporters will now be emboldened to do their racist things. Projection anyone?
“I can’t wait until the virus disappears 10 days from now.”
That’s great news!
CNN Loses 95% of it’s audience
Interesting
Well, it turns out CNN pays 47 airports to air its channel. It also reimburses them for the televisions, cable connections and maintenance.
And CNN doesn’t skimp. Carlson said the network pays Miami International Airport $150,000 a year to play on its TVs.
Hahaha !!
As a (former) frequent traveler, I found CNN overexposure tortuous, at least before smartphones.
I always sat where I wouldn’t need to watch CNN when I had to wait, so my blood pressure wouldn’t spike and ruin my flights.
Now do dentist offices.
CNN is the new magazine on the table thats’ two year-old. Past its date even in dentists offices.
Problem is, they take CNN off and put The View.
Back when we worked in an office and had a cafeteria, that show was always on in there, and then the noontime news following it was just as bad. Awful, awful awful. I couldn’t get my food and go back to my office fast enough some days.
Brown bag. Starve. Gnaw your tongue.
Must’ve been some damn good cafeteria grub.
It was actually pretty good before the old lunch ladies retired and the food vending company replaced them with people who could barely operate a microwave.
I always just got the food to go and ate in my office or in a conference room with friends.
The good news is I finally found all the hidden items in the Highlights picture. The bad news is I’ve been reading that same issue for the past 20yrs at the doctors office.
Is that the Bee?
No, I’m repeating someone else’s snark over the real situation of CNN no longer buying Airport airtime.
I’m thinking that’s why Mohammed Atta did what he did. Just didn’t wanna go through another airport.
The problem with our society today is that nobody believes in Horatio Algernon and have decided unwittingly to follow Algernon the mouse as their muse. Hard work is something that is scoffed at. Behavioral drugging is celebrated.
“Cry baby! Son of Supreme Court Judge who stormed the Capitol armed with a stick ditches his fur pelts and dons Baby Yoda pants as he weeps in court facing federal charges and is released on $100,000 bond”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9138937/Son-Brooklyn-Supreme-Court-Judge-seen-fur-pelts-Capitol-riot-arrested-New-York.html
I think he might be actually retarded.
They don’t like (((him))) for reason, eh?
He needs to self-immolate…for the “cause”. (’cause he’s a dumbass)
“I don’t know, they were jammies! They had Yodas an’ shit on ’em!”
GROGU. SAY HIS NAME.
The RLM ReView of the new season of Twin Peaks had a lot of mentions of Tulpas, perhaps you could write an article?
ah, the renowned Brooklyn Supreme Court. Can the President of Long Island pardon him? Or perhaps the King of The Jersey Shore will intercede on his behalf.
Here’s the thing. In New York, the low level trial courts are the “Supreme Court”, which then get appealled to the appelate division of the Supreme Court, then appelaed to the Court of Appeals, which is the equivalent to a sane state’s supreme court.
Fucking goombas.
It’s really simple. The supreme court is supreme, then the appelate division is supremer, and the CoA is supremest.
Which court is Beef Burrito Supreme with Sour Cream? Or is that in Jersey?
A brief video by John Stossel and Johan Nordberg on the often overlooked GOOD news of 2020, and the human tendency to focus on the negative.
From the centerforindependentthought dot org.
https://youtu.be/RfcGLoA1g8Q
Handy for bringing down the blood pressure.
I’ve been on a Johan Nordberg kick lately, watching his “the Real Adam Smith” and other free market vids (Cato, Free to Choose Media), reading his books like “Progress” and “Open” which comes out next week.
LOL, sure…
Greg Pinelo
@gregpinelo
Liz Cheney just became the front-runner for the 2024 nomination of whatever remains of the Republican Party. Brilliant move.
I’ll have what he’s having.
I read that as sarcasm but who knows nowadays.
Do they want me to vote Libertarian? That’s how you get me to vote Libertarian.
Well that and having a Libertarian candidate that doesn’t support BLM.
Yes – please make this happen. Then the GOP can finally die.
OMWC (or anyone), I’ve been trying to use the edit profile page to change my email address but it won’t send me the confirmatory email to the new address. Is there some trick or someone I can contact to take care of it?
I’ll ask SP. I am a total ignoramus about how this WordPress shit works.
Thanks
Send me an email with the change you’d like to make. website at this domain
They won’t stop until they actually destroy Trump, his family and their supporters.
Jacobins gonna Jacobin.
Unity!
When I hear Biden talk about “unity” it sounds to me like the kind of unity that Bubba is looking forward to having with his new cellmate once the lights go out.
Unity, much like bipartisan, in left-speak, means, “We get almost everything we want and you get nothing.”
Like compromise!
You mad, bro?
Christopher C. Cuomo
@ChrisCuomo
Context: retrumplicans were attacking anger and hostility of protestors toward the “system” – cops, laws, etc. i said they don’t have to just sing hymns and go home. Never supported riots. Never would. Operatives posing as media weaponizing my words know this. They are a problem
That’s not what you said.
wait, are cops heroes or villians now?
Nah. We knew very well what you meant.
I think he’s dumber than ‘Fredo to be frank.
Fredo the Younger vice, Fredo the Elder in Albany.
Of course, none of that will save you, and you’ll have to be canceled anyways.
But the executioner will strangle you before he lights the pyre.
No love for Thomas Massie on his birthday?
There are only two birthdays I remember – my mother’s and my father’s.
I forget my own, my siblings’, and any strangers’
I remember one friend’s because he happened to be born on the same day (different year) as my mother.
I dig him.
Because of stuff like this.
And this:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1348075177809223681
Nice
Metoo. He has been going the opposite direction his team red cohorts are.
Movie clip on Hitler using the Reichstag fire to gain power. I’d post it to Facebook but too many people will think it shows Trump using the Capitol Hiill attack to stay in office ignoring it’s the Democrats restricting speech and proscribing political enemies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kfQiy0_6BIo
No ‘vid, I guess maybe I am one of the NON-EXISTENT FLU SUFFERERS.
You just got so less cool.
So untrendy.
*Swiss slowly fades from existence*
Congratulations on the 1st victory for the Swiss.
There is a whole museum full of old stuff used to beat the crap out of the Hohenstaufens that begs to differ.
Resting on your laurels?
Soooo…it’s been a while eh?
The Congress of Vienna forbid Swiss mercenaries from hiring out.
*Pope’s guys not included.*
Congress destroys another flourishing industry!
Pikes. *snert*
Wear your mask in the distress position. *Feel better*
Sorry for your loss?
Uffda. Minnesoda cops are planning to have snipers present for demonstrations at St. Paul capitol.
Sure the story is about how Boogaloo Boys scouted out the spots where cops were planning on putting snipers, but I think the story should be more about cops using snipers when there are snipers. I think that is more worrying than any protests.
Stupid B-Boys! You don’t need to blow up a building. Just bring some rope and say you are going to topple a statue of Chis Columbus and the police will totally disappear.
Will the right-wingers be held responsible if they don’t show up at all but a couple of our heroes die of hypothermia?
Supposedly there is not even traffic indicating any organization of protests, just the FBI and “News” orgs word. Idk…
They’re probably reading some dark web board that is populated entirely by other agents.
“Gun-toting GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert leads Republicans raging against newly-installed metal detectors outside House chamber as Rep. Debbie Lesko blasts ‘we now live in Pelosi’s communist America'”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry her glock pistol into the Capitol, got into a standoff with police and wouldn’t let them search her bag after she set off the security alarm.
Boebert, who supports QAnon theories and made a name for herself carrying her fire arm on the campaign trail, walked through the screening process with her bag, which set off the magnetometer. She refused to hand the bag over to be searched.
Capitol Police eventually let her in the House chamber and it appears her bag was not searched before they did so.
‘I am legally permitted to carry my firearm in Washington, D.C. and within the Capitol complex,’ Boebert tweeted after the incident. ‘Metal detectors outside of the House would not have stopped the violence we saw last week — it’s just another political stunt by Speaker Pelosi.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9140595/House-members-checked-guns-QAnon-supporter-Marjorie-Taylor-Green-wanded.html
Boebert, who supports QAnon theories
Which theories? That needs some elucidation.
This is absolutely going to be the new smear. QAnon thinks there were election irregularities, you think there was election irregularities, you are QAnon.
Boebert may believe in the lizard people, in which case I fully support her cause.
Heck, she probably has stated that she doesn’t believe the Democrats are telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth, thus QAnon.
I love how the mainstream hyperventilates about “QAnon” without ever explaining what the hell it is. I don’t know all the details.
Yeah, QAnon is like GamerGate. People seem really worked up about something, but I can’t figure out what it is or even what the teams are.
I guess I’ll go back to shouting at youngsters to get off my snow.
To be fair it’s being overplayed but QAnon is replete with nutters. Seeing what it’s all about requires a deep dive into some of the weirder corners of the internet but the concern isn’t entirely unfounded. Think thousands of people believing exactly the same things that Lin Wood has been Tweeting, Parleying, Gabbing, whatevering lately.
It absolutely is.
The nutters come out to play when civil norms start to break down.
And the plausibility (except for the white knights) keeps rising above zero.
QAnon is now a stand in for, “people that I disagree with who are bad because they disagree with me”, much like, “racist”, “Nazi”, “misogynist” etc.
lizard people are definitely real.
were*
*pours one out for our MIA Mr. Lizard *
Yep. Miss him too.
Elizabeth Warren hardest hit
“the deadly toll of a tattered health system and generations of harm and broken promises by the U.S. government.”
Yes, if Great White Father doesn’t help, those poor savages will all die! Thanks NYT!
The reality that nobody wants to talk about is that they are a conquered people.
Until relatively recent history, warfare to gain land or resources was totally legit in the eyes of the world. Now, these days we would approach first contact with a new people very differently and diplomatically.
But the fact is, to the victor belong the spoils, and you are the remnants of the vanquished people.
The good news is that the conquering people would happily welcome your full entry into their successful culture if you would only quite literally leave the reservation.
Would “we” though? Isn’t it likely that a new-to-us people would have a very different world view, perhaps one at great odds with accepted norms. How would the people in charge of contact with them react to a society with repellent-to-them social norms?
Doubt it would be a cultural thing.
When we find “new” peoples, it is usually in some corner of a dog-forsaken shit hole.
If we found some vast continent full of natural resources and thinly populated, we wouldn’t give a shit about their culture. We’d pretty much conquer them and take that land.
I actually thought about writing something along these lines first. You’re right–our reaction would depend on the stakes as much as our sense of the compatibility of cultures.
But with a veneer of “helping.” Ideally we’d open up trade, but in reality Morgan Q.E. Wolf-Slattery government sociologists would “help” them preserve their old ways, thus condemning them to a new reservation.
Probably, with a lot of cluck-clucking and faux concern over their cultural decline.
Frankly, they were probably better treated than most conquered peoples, who were often mass raped out of existence in a generation or two or enslaved and worked to death
-1,000,000,000 Uighurs
The good news is that the conquering people would happily welcome your full entry into their successful culture if you would only quite literally leave the reservation.
Didn’t the Cherokee try for that in Georgia, only to get sent to Oklahoma for the trouble?
The Cherokee were split between one faction which wanted to stay on their ancestral lands (part of that in Georgia) and another faction which figured it would be more practical to go along with the government and move to Oklahoma. Then some rumors were spread about there being gold in their part pf Georgia… not a lot of options after that.
Not so much split as backstabbed by a small minority of leaders, IIRC.
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Just one year to
flatten the curvemake things right.So we need more government, correct?
People used to joke with hyperbole like “pandemic sweeps nation, women and minorities hardest hit”
Now, in these hyperbolic times, it’s literally right there in print.
Also, the irony of all their special pleading is that they strongly imply that white men are ubermenschen.
Uh, the fact that they live on a fucking rez kind of precludes assimilation.
And, again, not a fucking word about the ridiculously poor health in those communities.
Fuck off, NYT. You don’t give a shit about these people.
Poor health? Did you not even see the pics in that story of the young mothers from the NoDak res?
They were uber healthy because they have obviously gotten rid of Western Colonial Fat Shaming on the res and those gals can waddle around without stressing their systems.
Sure some shitlord scientists will try to tell you that obesity is a good way to raise your chances of croaking from the Rona, but they are clearly white supremacists.
What, Indian girls don’t look like cartoon Pocahontas or those buxom chicks that always turned up in the old Western movies?
Pass me the Land O’Lakes butter, please.
I grew up next to a big res and I can say that there are a ton of foxy native tirls living there. The problem is that they tend to have a definite sell by date. For the Ojibwe girls it was late 20’s and they started aging fast and expanding across the backside. If they had a kid, that date moved up to when they got pregnant.
Sounds like your anaconda does like itself some Honda, yo. – Sir Mixalot
So, Mexican girls, basically
Maybe they should have, I dunno, written that shit down?
NPR had an interview with a Cherokee who was teaching the language to the young’uns. Unfortunately she didn’t grow up speaking it herself, so she speaks it with a really thick redneck accent. It was simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.
Also hilarious was listening to the strain in the NPRites voice as the Elder was explaining how she uses Christian prayers and hymns to teach the next generation of speakers.
LOL
I can only imagine the discussions that provoked in the editing room.
Root out the traitors
Former and current members of law enforcement agencies and the military appear to have participated in last week’s chaos in Washington, alarming lawmakers on Capitol Hill and Americans nationwide as each day brings new video and information about the riot and the rioters.
Investigations by law enforcement agencies and news organizations, along with a series of arrests, have exposed a widening issue of domestic extremism among the ranks of those who are meant to protect Americans.
On Monday, even the U.S. Capitol Police announced that the agency had suspended “several” of its own and will investigate at least 10 officers for their actions.
What could possibly go wrong?
If they won’t crack heads on demand they’re suspect.
“Participated.”
So they were present for the speech and not necessarily involved in the 100 or so that went into the capitol.
This will spread to any cops that signed the oath keepers pledge. The ones that feel limited by constitutional constraints must be identified.
Yep. NPR has been breathlessly reporting on them for a while now.
I’ll give the Oathkeepers this, they have kept their members largely silent and uninvolved during this recent period. To me, that means they’re more serious about it.
I blame Tundra and Leap for hassling our elected betters.
I sure hope us tax payers have bought him an appropriately comfy fainting couch. Brother Keith deserves the best we can offer him.
What the fuck did these idiots think would happen?
We’d bow and scrape like proper peasants.
But shits like you won’t even tug at your forelock when King Walz drives by.
nation’s first Muslim member of Congress
There’s just minor differences between a Nation of Islam adherent and your run-of-the-mill Sunni.
Ahem. The new Official History 2nd Edition has had all mentions of Brother Keith’s association with the Nation of Islam removed. By continuing to bring that crap up, you are committing a hate crime. Please report to a re-education camp.
You still have a copy of the depricated 2nd edition? Report to a re-education camp for repurposing.
Last Christmas the woman I lived with in Austin sent me a first edition IP-infringing Deities & Demigods. I love her so mu8ch.
I think I still have one of those upstairs with my other RPG books.
I have a copy on the front porch. (It’s really a closed room, not a porch, but a porch for tax purposes)
You have an expensive irreplaceable book in a non-climate controlled room?
It’s got the same climate control as the rest of the house.
And it’s not like it was in mint condition when I got it.
I lost several thousand dollars worth of leather goods merely by hanging them in a closet on an exterior wall. The mold up here is horrifying.
Plus those books weren’t printed on archival quality paper.
I am a lifelong resident of upstate new york. I know what the conditions are around here.
You are flipping out over the fact that I called it a porch. There would be no difference in whatever room I put them in. It is built like every other room in the house. It is heated by the same system as the rest of the house. Stop harping on where I choose to put my books.
Actually, from the sounds of it your house might need to be reinspected and fixed if your exterior walls are molding up.
The damage occurred in my rental unit. My new house is tight and cosy. The utility bills are much lower than previously and with double the volume.
And yeah, I thought that “porch for tax puposes” meant that it had been a literal porch that was later closed in. And frankly having witnessed the quality of the older housing stock up here the idea that there’d be much dampness and uncontrolled air exchange seemed reasonable. Still does.
Yes, you are a lifelong resident, which may mean that you think having a plague of ravenous penicillium is NBD. It’s actually a BFD.
I have a copy too.
Tell me about it. Ellison is a cruel, ignorant, petty criminal.
His best quality is that he’s too stupid to be very effective.
In a nation founded on slavery, in a culture awash in white supremacy not only has Keith Ellison has:
– Become a Congressman
– Become Minnesoda’s AG
– Gotten his kid (an artist) on the Mpls City Council
– His ex-wife is on the Mpls School Board
And you don’t think he is effective?
He’s running in the bluest possible location of a blue state. He could murder puppies snf eat them on line tv and still get elected.
(Amusingly, when he joined Nation of Islam in the. 90s, he changed his legal last name to Muhammad. He ran for office with that name and list. Next cycle, he’d changed back to the very Scandinavian Ellison and won.)
Has he paid all his outstanding traffic tickets yet?
I honestly can’t believe there was a time in my life I took the FBI as a serious competent organization.
I blame Efrem Zimbalist jr.
I lost my delusions about the FBI reading Howie Carr.
So up here in America’s hat we have the choice between The Hair That Walks As A Man, some Greenie who seems to be on day three of a peyote high, another that is entirely too ethnic and may as well be called Jagdip Trudeau, a Quebec Separatist and a Spud. Wonder who’s gonna win?
**HEAVY SIGH**
The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ will probably get re-elected. There’s still far too many sad, horny women in Central Canada who are absolutely convinced of His hotness and will vote for Him in the forlorn hope that He’ll show up at their residence the next day and wildly fuck their eyeballs out as a “Thank You” for their vote.
I wish I was kidding.
The same thing has worked for Gavin Newsom too.
I was sure she killed him.
Kim Jong Un has given himself a lofty new title and removed his ascendant sister from North Korea’s inner circle of powerful elites.
On the sixth day of a rare Workers’ Party Congress meeting, Mr. Kim was elevated from chairman to general secretary, a rank previously held by his late father and grandfather. North Korean state media described the role as “the brain of the revolution.” But as a practical matter, Mr. Kim’s control over the cloistered regime remains as absolute as ever.
Meanwhile, Kim Yo Jong, the leader’s younger sister and a confidante, wasn’t named to the Politburo, the party’s top decision-making body, in an apparent demotion from her prior standing as an alternative member. Some Pyongyang experts had expected Ms. Kim could be promoted to a full-time seat.
That’s ‘Dr. president-elect Brain of the Revolution, esquire’ to you.
So, has she been fed to the dogs?
OMG! PATRIARCHEE! BIDEN MUST STOP THIS NAO!
Citing security reasons, he declined to specify the nature of certain threats that he has received in recent months, but he acknowledged that it has become serious enough to warrant changes to his daily lifestyle in response. Ellison, who has been singled out before for his faith after becoming the nation’s first Muslim member of Congress, said Islamist terrorist groups have made threats on his life.
Nonspecific imaginary threat is imaginary.
He was literally shaking.
What happened to Pie?
I’ve been wondering about that, meself. Miss him.
Add me to the list, was just realizing the other day that I hadn’t seen him around for a while.
Sunlight.
Decided we are crazy people from an insane country? Rightly so.
Probably better off making friends on a Russian site.
I hear they don’t eat so much sugar in Russia. Because it’s not available.
Someone here probably got him a plane ticket for a visit… which then got him black-bagged going through customs.
January 6 was the day Qaddafi found Saddam Hussain’s stash of yellow cake in the gulf of Tonkin.
Hah hah hah!
https://apnews.com/article/chuck-norris-not-at-us-capitol-riot-2f75733812f1469710b8a45b1362462a
Duh, if he had been, then there would be no building left.
Along those lines, check out Jean Claude Van Johnson. It’s easily one of the funniest things I’ve watched in years. Who knew Van Damme was a comic?
We thoroughly enjoyed that too.
One of many reasons VanDamme >> Segal, who takes himself way too seriously.
This is apparently the guy in question. All old white guys look the same I guess. Looks more the Pope Jimbo TBH…
*Roundhouse kicks CPRM for suggesting I’d wear a bolo tie*
Jimbo, you’ve been sick? Looks like you’ve lost a lot of weight.
What always amazes me is that there are not more audio leaks of politicians talking shop behind closed doors. You just know that the cynical opportunists like Pelosi and McConnell talk freely about how they want to manipulate the news and their loathing for the voters.
If Project Veritas is any indication, the useful idiots at lower ranks feel no compunction about what they want to do to the wrongthinkers or how they will game the voting system.
It’s a modern age people and our technical capabilities are vast, get to it!
“It’s like we’re having a cultural book-burning,” said Jason Salsman, a spokesman for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in eastern Oklahoma, whose grandparents contracted the virus but survived. “We’re losing a historical record, encyclopedias. One day soon, there won’t be anybody to pass this knowledge down.”
If there were only some means of capturing this knowledge in a permanent form which could then be accessible to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
But if they bought a reasonably professional A/V setup for a grand, they wouldn’t get millions of federal guilt money!!
I used to think that about the internet, now with the fact checkers, gate keepers and biased algorithms; the majority of the flow of any information, news, history, hell even maps and definitions is all controlled by 2 or 3 entities.
Maybe something hand-held that you might also use for communication …
Not if King “Wreck-it” Ralph has anything to say about it.
There is, however, at least one event that has been on the books for quite some time, has an official affiliation with a 2A group, and is promoting a peaceful, nonviolent gathering on the part of gun owners. Early last year the Virginia Citizens Defense League scheduled its annual Lobby Day for this January 18th (the group typically holds their event on Martin Luther King, Jr Day in order to allow for increased participation), and VCDL president Phillip Van Cleave says that the event will take place next Monday as scheduled.
The VCDL has the absolute best track record of any political group in history, in this regard.
Last year there were about 50k demonstrators packed into the capitol grounds, most of them armed, and there wasn’t a single incident. Not one.
I think you mean “armed, white-supremacist, gun-nut nazi’s”, comrade.
But yeah that was pretty sizeable as an event. If only we had a responsible news media to cover it.
Heh. The latin guy and the indian guy i went with would have a great laugh at that idea.
Yep.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-names-eric-swalwell-house-impeachment-manager
The CCP seems to be getting pretty brazen about their relationship with the Democratic party.
We are in deep deep shut with the Chinese. They’ve been playing the long game.
Shit
And Trump seriously put that game in jeopardy. Biden will not only get them back on track, but make it quicker.
Probably the most unserious pick she could have made with the exception of a squad member.
No way. That’s pretty funny – and sad.
Usually a speaker selects House managers to reinforce the credibility and integrity of the case against a president.
In clown world the speaker picks someone that is wholly compromised.
Look there are only a few days to get that impeachment done. No way a bunch of lazy Americans are going to work 24/7 to get impeachment charges written up. You gotta bring in those Asians to get the all that homework done before Trump leaves.
What happened to Pie?
Got eaten?
Van Helsing.
I don’t even know what happened to Sugar Free!
Who knew Van Damme was a comic?
It takes selfawareness. Something in woefully short supply in these
tryingobdurately ignorant times.also- another thumbs up for JCVJ
I’m about to test my health network’s ability to deal with an injury instead of Covid.
My left ankle is fucked. Swollen way up, hot to the touch, can’t bear weight, very painful.
I sent my doc a message on the Kaiser Permanente website describing it. It will be interesting to see if she has me come in for imaging and an exam or just tells me RICE. In a sane world, my care would be unaffected, except for a mask, and my bill would help pay the hospital so they don’t have to lay off staff.
We shall see…
Have you had a history of gout?
I was about to ask the same thing.
Huh. No.
I hadn’t thought of that.
Yes, gout feels like a broken bone, is warm to the touch and is worst at night. (Sorry to be gross, but dark urine is also a sign).
Sorry. Hopefully you get taken care of.
Let’s see what happened yesterday on the “baseless charges of election fraud and illegalities” front. A federal judge in Penna. ruled that the GOP winner of a state senate seat – by 24 votes – had in fact lost by 69 votes because one county in the district should have been allowed to count 311 mail-in ballots that did not have a legally required handwritten date on the ballot submission. Move along; nothing to see here.
Rules are for the conservatives.
Do you even victim bro?
This is how you get a Trump. Now that they are rubbing it in our face, I suspect we will get much worse than a Trump.
did not have a legally required handwritten date on the ballot submission
The written and duly passed law is just a piece of paper.
I wonder if these judges understand that they’re adding fuel to the fire by ignoring the law as written.
They’re stomping on the gas when tensions are already very high. Do they think that it’s not going to blow up? And if it blows up, do they not think the violent aggrieved are going to remember who they are and what they did?
You might think they’d be more circumspect in their decisions as a result. Anyone can see the situation is getting worse by the minute and they’re public figures. I don’t get it. I get why Pelosi and those bunch do it, they’re fighting to stay out of prison for corruption. But I don’t understand these lower-level figures at all.
Torching a limo during Trump’s inauguration is just shenanigans, and the feds drop the charges.
Moving Pelosis lectern from her office to the lobby is LITERALLY TERRORISM, SEDITION, AND A COUP.
You know, it would be pretty entertaining to create a website “documenting” all the all-but-proven instances of fraud in the 2020 election, but attribute them to some obscure but unpopular third world country. I’d love to see how much traction it would get in “respectable” circles before someone figured out that the obscure but unpopular third world country was the United States.
Kind of like presenting the Nazi political platform minus the ethnic portions to a group of freshman history majors.
Of course, you could probably put Trump supporters as a stand-in for non-Germans in the platform now, and it would be riotously approved of.
The economic platform of the fascists is what we live under today. Fascism, as an economic system, is the actual economic system of the entire Western world. Capital has certain rights and protections. Labor has certain rights and protections. The government has the power to enforce a whole slew of policies and regulations on private business. Businesses are controlled and guided toward political goals by the State, and in return for their compliance they are given favorable tax and other financial considerations.
Absolutely
I’m allowed to have a business in return for collecting taxes and enforcing regulations. Not it looks like they’re going to want me to enforce political conformity.
“Rep. Mikie Sherrill says Congress members gave ‘reconnaissance’ tours day before Capitol raid
Sherrill did not specify whether the “groups” were Trump supporters or detail what took place during the “reconnaissance.” The term refers to an exploratory mission for the purpose of gaining information.
A call to Sherrill was not immediately returned late Tuesday evening.”
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/12/mikie-sherrill-pro-trump-rioters-got-tour-congress-members/6648386002/
They’re really gunning to remove the political opposition.
It would fairly logical for assholes who intended to create havoc to ask for perfectly legal tours beforehand. Are the constituents’ congresscritters supposed to know?
From Wiki. Born in Alexandria, went to US Naval Academy, flew helicopters for a bit, then got on the general staff, then out of the service to become a federal prosecutor, then into Congress. Ruling class from birth to right now. Never in her life has she flipped burgers, or worked the midnight shift in a corner bodega, or tossed hay bales.
She means to rule well, but she means to rule you.
Again, it’s the one thing about AOC: I disagree with her about almost everything, but she’s a bartender who got to where she is by launching a successful sneak attack upon one of these creatures. Full props to her.
“As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition. This last difference was cardinal.” — George Orwell, 1984
“President Trump will remain in office.
This Hail Mary attempt to remove him from the White House is an attack on every American who voted for him.
Democrats must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.”
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1349190884592660488
Twitter is a cesspool. Jesus.
Well all, looks like Ohio is about to be wiped out due to the New and Improved ‘vid. Good thing we’ve got those vaccinations rolling out.
Meme of the day.
Lol
Hmmm, according to Mark Dice, YouTube locked Trump out of his account for seven days (it’ll be permanent ) for posting his border wall speech.
Crazy times…
Touting success, condemning censorship, questioning the Dem’s motives and actions with a second farce impeachment is all insurrection inciting hate-speech, comrade.
I bought a new truck yesterday. F550, 4×4, 6.7 diesel, crew, nice flatbed with the aux tank, light bar, head ache rack, 130k miles…. I feel like I stole it.
$25k
2016
On a side note, I learned that car personal car insurance will only go up to an F350. If you want an F450 or above you need commercial insurance, which wasn’t nearly as expensive as I thought it would be.
How thick is the armor you’re putting on it?
He is saving that for the Killdozer.
2d12+8
AC of at least 18 (No Ranch Hand Bumper yet)
I was going for c.1995 (2nd ed?) 40k armor rules, but haven’t cracked the rulebook in 20yrs. It might literally crack if I open it.
a glibertarian RPG weekend would be fun.
You’re gonna be the envy of Podunkville.
Circling the drain
House Democrats are likely to implement a rule in the House of Representatives fining lawmakers $500 for not wearing face masks on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a senior Democratic aide not authorized to speak publicly.
Lawmakers will be fined $500 on a first offense and $2,500 for a second offense, and fines will be deducted from their pay, according to the aide. Fines cannot be paid with members’ campaign funds or their expense accounts.
The rule will be included in a procedural vote Tuesday evening clearing the way for the House to pass a measure calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office.
The proposed rule comes after House Reps. Anthony Brown, D-Md., and Debby Dingell, D-Mich., proposed legislation Tuesday that would fine any member of Congress who refuses to wear a mask on Capitol grounds $1,000 for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Somebody with a backbone ought to say, “Sure- as soon as you provide hard data from real world observational studies which prove the effectiveness of masks.”
Also- sticking it in that “procedural vote” makes it look like they just want to get a bunch of Republicans on the record as mask refuseniks who want people to die.
“You sir! Where is your star!?”
-Some German guy
False. German guy wouldn’t say “sir” to a suspected Juden.
lol. They’re all vaccinated.
I bought a new truck yesterday. F550, 4×4, 6.7 diesel, crew, nice flatbed with the aux tank, light bar, head ache rack, 130k miles…. I feel like I stole it.
$25k
2016
Wow. What was the original sticker price? Do you know?
I have no idea. But I suspect this is just the beginning. It was a small business that was just selling off anything they could. They sold a skid steer the week prior. I’m no vulture. We had a rig break down mid trip with a trailer on it and we needed something ASAP to replace it. The stars aligned and we had a new truck in place in rolling within 6 hours.
I’m guessing the sticker was well over $80k in 2016.
Using spectral data, the team also speculates that the supermassive black hole is gobbling up the equivalent of 25 suns every year — which means it’s still growing.
Hungry.
In the letter, the vice president is urging Congress to not invoke the 25th Amendment. The purpose of the amendment is to address presidential incapacity or disability.
The letter was not that bad.
A married couple in Quebec apparently decided to test out a loophole they thought they discovered in the local coronavirus regulations. Unfortunately for them, the authorities didn’t agree that husbands can be considered “pets.”
I guess he wasn’t in a furry suit?
“As a Marine, I took an oath to defend this country against enemies foreign and domestic. That oath has no expiration date. I’m gonna be damned if I allow that to happen in Chicago. … There should be no symbols or signs attributed to any person who leads an insurrection against the U.S. government. We just can’t stand for that.”
Hmmm….
Cab Calloway is good.
I’m old to enough to remember when all the good people were screeching RESIST!!!!!
Rufus and/or other Montrealers/Quebecois:
The arrow sash, is that something people actually wear to the winter carnival? Any coded meaning in colors or how it’s worn?
(inspired by the sashes worn by the insectoids in the header image, plus missing visiting QC)
“Debby Dingell, D-Mich”
A Dingell has been a member of the House of Reps from Michigan since 1932. This particular one was royalty from GM who married a Prince from the house of Dingell 27 years older than her and inherited his congressional seat after he died from cancer.
IOW, we fought a war 250 years ago to prevent people like this from ruling over us. A war we’ve eventually lost.
Not all patriots were fighting to end kingship, see Hamilton, Alexander.
WHO regions, EU, and USA
Old, rich, and fat.
Now she’s officially working for the Chinese.
Jokes on them if they actually take her advise on strategy – they have no idea how dumb she actually is.
They didn’t hire her for her ideas. They hired her for her connections.
Boxer is a moron.
Huh, I thought Hikvision was Korean. I guess the replacement box for our business system is going to be something else then.
If the Bidens taking BILLIONS from the CCP isn’t even news worthy, why would this be?
In the letter, the vice president is urging Congress to not invoke the 25th Amendment. The purpose of the amendment is to address presidential incapacity or disability.
Silly rabbit. He doesn’t agree with them, doesn’t do what they want; he’s dangerously insane.
If the Bidens taking BILLIONS from the CCP isn’t even news worthy, why would this be?
Whycome u hates free enterprise?
Free enterprise, influence peddling. Tomayto, tomahto.
You will all be shocked to find out that David Hogg is still a malicious moron.
David Hogg Public address loudspeaker
@davidhogg111
You want a gun ?
You should need to pay for liability insurance so anyone you injure or kill has all of their medical bills, funeral costs and therapy covered.
It should not be on the victims of Gun violence to pay for their therapy and medical bills- or funerals.
I assume he
thinksemotes that all deaths by gun are “victims”.The victims of gun violence are usually at fault. #PainfulTruths
G fucking damnit! I hop over to youtube and see another video about how “Transformers: The Movie” [1986] (the animated one) traumatized kids because it killed off characters. I was like 4 when I saw it and I was glad the subject matter was being treated more serious. Maybe I’ve always just been old for my age and that’s why I’m hanging out with all you old farts.
Add to the list Pokemon, Digemon, Dragonball Z, Power Rangers, Beetle Borgs, etc., I guess.
It always bugged me as a kid when watching GI Joe that there were always parachutes every time a plane got blown up. I believe the A-Team did the same sort of thing.
The A-Team would also depict vehicles flipping through the air, landing on the roof, and the bad guys would always come stumbling out, shaking their heads and that’s it – no further injury
When they brought in those robots (Who just so happened to be BLACK, so fucking racist) they would explode.
Of course Voltron pulled the same schtick to kill of it’s bad guys, calling them robots, even though the Go-Lion footage they used would often show them eating and drinking. Fucking government standards boards.
RIP Optimus Prime. *tear drop* I loved that movie. I watched it with my oldest (8) over the summer and he did not love it, probably because he only really knows about Transformers from the newer movies.
If I did nothing else right in helping to raise my second eldest niece (19) she has seen every episode of G1 Transformers (even the Japan only Takara shows) and last summer at her graduation party was playing songs from the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack. For a graduation present I bought her own copy of the US show, and she about had stroke I gave her copies of the Takara shows as part of her Christmas present this year.
Live in the bubble CPRM. You are supposed to be traumatized! Now, site down and watch this educational video that is geared towards the 5-8 year olds about the joys of anal sex.
Don’t watch Cobra Kai Season 3. All of those fighting kids should be dead.
Yes, they should but isn’t it glorious that they’re not!
Because, as my husband says, “Plot.”
One was in a coma and one got his arm broken, and it is schlock, fun but schlock, aimed at middle aged men. I just hate this idea that kids shows can’t take on serious things and that kids don’t want to see or can’t process them.
To be honest, the death of that random Ewok in Return of the Jedi (that Gen Xers say was ‘kid shit that ruined Star Wars’) was scarier to me than the death Optimus Prime. Because Prime was a leader, had chosen to fight. This random Ewok was died just trying to defend his people, we have no idea if he was a warrior or just forced to fight and die because the Empire decided Endor was a strategic place.
Don’t put those dead teddy bears on the empire. They left the Ewoks alone until the rebels stirred them up with a false idol and they attacked an Imperialy installation.
Lol
We know they left that tribe of Ewoks alone, but what is Lucas Film hiding? There had to have been more tribes. They seem to have a thriving, if not civilized culture. Was there an Ewok Expulsion Act to make room for that installation?! What kind of treaties did they sign with these indigenous animals?
If you are speaking of Cobra Kai, this is false or at least only part of the truth. It is aimed at GenX and Karate Kid is an indelible part of our childhood. The TV forums are filled with women who love this show.
Large majority of TV content (including all advertisements) is aimed at women. I don’t have evidence of it other than what I observe.
True confession time: I was stitching and wanted something to watch, so I dialed up Netflix and found a romance/low-key soap opera (without soap opera lighting) based on a colleague’s novels. I’m enjoying the show, but underneath all that lies, “Why aren’t my books on TV?” So the envy is still with me.
Didn’t provide “personal services” to enough TV executives?
Alternative snark – it’s hard to balance books on top of flatscreens.
I actually did provide ebook services to a soap opera executive producer. My only payment was that he read my book and tell me if I would be wasting my time writing a pilot and a series bible.
He loved it and said he’d put me in touch with a script doctor to help me polish it up and then he’d shop it around for me.
That was years ago and an opportunity I squandered because I was scared. Also, quite busy and stressed with work and a newborn and toddler and stupid house. But I was scared.
Odd how we’re all about self actualization…but won’t connect with people we may know who could help actualize that… 😉
Yeah, my dad always said people are afraid of success. I thought that was odd, but at the same time I understood it.
When I was in the second grade, I overexerted myself to win a foot race. I was small and chubby and my legs were short, but I did it and the high was lovely–but it wasn’t lovely to overcome the fact that I had fallen on my knees just after the finish line and skinned them badly. Not only that, but I got thoroughly humiliated because I was wearing a dress and it flipped up showing my backside. I decided success wasn’t worth the price.
But then I watch football players falling all over themselves to get into the end zone and nobody laughs. It’s expected.
So here I am, 40-some years later still not wanting to skin my knees and show my panties.
One word – Trousers.
What’s weird is that it didn’t start out so schlocky. It started as a character examination of Johnny Lawrence.
But that is where we are. I still really enjoy the heck out of it, but the silliness factor is up, up, up.
I haven’t seen season 3.
I would have preferred to keep going with the character examination of Johnny, but they had to do something when they were picked up for season 2.
I guess they never saw Watership Down. Or All Dogs Go To Heaven.
My little brother after watching “All Dogs go to Heaven”, “That damn dog died twice!”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/nyc-will-pull-city-contracts-with-trump-organization-mayor-says
PURGE!!!! PURGE THE UNCLEAN!
NYC is a private company! They can do whatever they want! It’s not censorship when NYC does it!
Disagreeing with me and attempting to use constitutional mechanisms to attempt to ensure election integrity is white-supremacy.
When asked if Republican lawmakers’ objections to certifying the electors were within their power, Bush said, “Let’s be clear. This was a racist attempt to overturn an election. This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voters of the Black, Brown, indigenous people’s voices, trying to invalidate our votes because we turned out in large numbers for this election, and to tell us that our votes don’t count, that they don’t matter? That’s another form of voter suppression. Also, to all of those grassroots groups, those Black and Brown organizers, those groups that push to help bring this win home for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, we won’t stand for it. So I’m speaking up. You are going to hear that we’re not going to let this go because this is a racist attempt. We have to call it what it is. It’s white supremacy at its finest.”
“If you vote for Trump you ain’t black!”
As usual, professor Sowell nails it.
Unity, healing.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Here’s how elected Republicans and conservative media can begin the healing and unifying process:
Accurately state that Joe Biden was duly elected president in a free and fair election.
Urge Trump supporters to refrain from further violence.
LOL, fuck off you mendacious, lying cunte.
Accurately state that Joe Biden was duly elected president in a free and fair election.
You first. You tell me that there was no Russian collusion and I’ll entertain the idea of stating that this election was fair and free.
Cruz and Hawley should say this too, we’ll resign when every democrat who peddled Russian collusion resigns first (that includes you Nancy).
Hillary Clinton, March 2020.
The LA Times goes full psychopath:
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1349113871760429056
this type of thinking is fucking evil.
Pelosi picking Swalwell as impeachment manager is about as in-your-face, we have all the power, as you can get.
All pretense has ended.
Swalwell should not currently be in congress. That he is represents an epic joke.
Ha Ha! Somebody dropped the ball on an underground parkade that was delved into a flood plain. The initial cost was 12 million. It is now 34 million and counting. We replaced a culvert under a road with a bridge and it wound up being five times the estimate. Another 15 million. One of the water mains failed. 10 million more. This is just “too local” stuff. Imagine what happens big picture. We’re fucked, good and proper.
? I had to look that up
Again, it’s the one thing about AOC: I disagree with her about almost everything, but she’s a bartender who got to where she is by launching a successful sneak attack upon one of these creatures. Full props to her.
And are her “backers” suffering buyers’ remorse?
“Be careful what you wish for” isn’t just a fairy tale plot line.
Well, the Democrats have control of the entire Federal Government for two years. If there’s gonna be infighting, it will be between the “true believers like AOC, and the lifetime grifters that Biden, Pelosi, et al. represent.
I fucking despise aristocracies. Despise them. They are a cancer upon human kind. Team Red’s might even be worse: the Cheneys and Bushes and Romneys and so forth. It’s the biggest thing I have against Rand Paul. Though at least he went out and got elected in a different part of the country than his dad.
For all of her issues, AOC isn’t part of one yet. It might actually turn out to be useful for the next few years.
Though at least he went out and got elected in a different part of the country than his dad.
So did Romney. And the Bushes.
IT is being really responsive today. It’s gone through three levels of approval in under two hours AND they’ve created a child ticket to actually perform the work!
Even better, nobody’s asked me to do anything stupid or self-contradictory.
Unpossible!
Where’s the IT managers getting in the way? Did they lay off the help desk obfuscators?
And then they call “Did you try turning it off and on again?!”
I can’t do this anymore. Time for carbs and sleep. Good Night Allies.
Night Festus!
‘Night Festus!
Reading up on the arrow sash, led me to this bit, upon which time my euphemism counter exploded:
+1 Great Alaskan Bush Company
They were the arc-rivals of the well known dining club for professionals involved in the manufacture of ladies handwarmers, the Muff Club.
They were also affiliated with the lunch club associated with the floor covering manufacturing industry, the Carpet Munchers.
More people that don’t fucking love science.
Is it possible that such an unabashed partisan is developing self -awareness?
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/apple_growers.png
?
I am still confused by this one. I am not convinced this a the result of introspection. It may just be another acknowledgement that OMB is ruining everything.
That’s how I read it.
A man who only eats fast food is ruining apples.
It would be nice to think.
I can imagine that even committed partisans might eventually get tired of the endless performative screeching.
The split in the Dem Party is generational. For the old Democrats, calling Republicans Nazis and white supremacists was just politics, it was a way to whip up the base and especially get the black vote to turnout. Gotta vote OR THEY’LL PUT YOU BACK IN CHAINS!!!!! But at the end of the day, it was all bullshit.
The problem is now you have young leftist politicians who grew up being bombarded with that propaganda who actually believe it. People like AOC and Cori Bush genuinely believe it to be true that mainline Republicans are seething Nazis. They have been taught that in school, in college, and by the media their entire lives. I was told in my overwhelmingly black middle school, by black schoolteachers, that Republicans hate black people. This was the official word from state agents in 2002 and 2003.
The Democrats have spent at least 15 or 20 years telling their supporters, volunteers, and employees that the Republicans are Nazis who hate them and want to kill them, and now all that propaganda has produced young politicians and staffers who are ready to use the power of the state against the Nazis. They just don’t understand why their elders aren’t gung ho to finally storm the beaches.
OT: Did you get done what you needed to get done with the bishop?
Phrasing!
We haven’t done that in years.
Every bishop needs a good flogging every now and then.
I left a message for the phone number for Bishop ____________ on the website you gave me. Hopefully that works.
Email me if you need more help. moriah at moriahjovan dot com.
Will do thanks.
Fuck no
He’ll gain awareness only when they come for his scalp.
GOP lawmakers upset about metal detectors in the Capitol?
Now do airports and municipal office buildings, you worthless fucks.
Sporting events
But we can all agree we need them in schools though, they are a gun-free zone after all.
Everything they do is wrong
Trump administration health officials blindsided states on Tuesday with an abrupt and dramatic shift in how they’ll distribute coronavirus vaccines that may set up new hurdles for the Biden transition team.
The administration plans to punish states that don’t move fast enough on vaccinations or that fail to provide the government real-time reports on inoculations. Trump officials also urged states to immediately start vaccinating anyone 65 and over or with high-risk medical conditions.
Those moves, however, won’t fix the chaos and inequities that have marked the vaccine rollout so far, including low uptake in underprivileged communities hardest hit by the pandemic, public health experts and some officials representing state health departments told POLITICO. And they could put states struggling to vaccinate hard-to-reach communities farther behind.
Never saw that coming.
You can get shots in people’s arms or you can micromanage and worry about “inequities”. Pick one.
Day One: We need Federal guidance!
Day Two: The Feds are punishing us!
Day Three: We, not the Feds, gets to decide who gets the vaccine
Day Four: There is no Federal guidance!
You forgot the “OMB!” at the end of those.
I would wager that Biden will try to implement a top-down plan and calls of “sedition” will be made to the governors of states that don’t follow it.
And he’ll outsource it to Cuomo, who wrote the book on his great leadership after all.
If you were told exhaustively that your country is racist and hates you and wants to keep you oppressed, would you be running out to get a vaccine brought to you by that same government/country?
It’s self-selection bias, not inequity.
Well that, and anything that Trump had anything to do with is ineffective and dangerous. But now that he lost, the vaccine developed while he was in office is perfectly fine and safe. Playing politics with something like this creates negative consequences? No way!
Besides, this isn’t the Trump vaccine. It’s the vaccine that Biden developed in his basement when he wasn’t campaigning. He’s truly a miracle worker.
Good thing Dr. Jill was there to do all the science and stuff.
At TOS, they are praising Liz-fucking-Cheney as a “profile in courage” for calling for Trump’s impeachment. Yes, that same Liz Cheney who is the daughter of the ultimate neocon, Dick Cheney.
Holy hell, as TOS gone down the toilet.
I expect to see “The libertarian case for authoritarianism” any day.
“The libertarian case for destroying libertarianism.”