Another nice win
My God, we really have entered the age of cowardice. Not to worry, there were some games played, including the Buckeyes winning again. Not much else on sports aside from people crying about what former politician a football player didn’t disavow. Or who walked to the stadium with or without a mask on. Or other stupid shit. Anyway, that’s it for sports. Oh, let me know if the NHL has gone full retard or not. If not, I’ll start paying more attention just as soon as I find the time. Which has been scarce lately.
What a maroon
Big birthdays today are the President who did the best job ever, William Henry Harrison, auto designer Wilhelm Maybach, British actor Ronald Colman, MLB owner and self-promoter Bill Veeck, actor Joe Pesci, economist Joseph Stiglitz, baseball player Mookie Wilson, utility man John Kruk, country singer Travis Tritt, cricket great Glenn McGrath, and American Taliban cosplayer John Walker Lindh.
That’s it for birthdays. Now let’s see what the world is up to with…the links!
The impeachment trial (of a person who is not a federal official) begins today. If you’re expecting a sober analysis, don’t bother clicking the link I provided.
::cough:: Bullshit ::cough::
LOL, you just can’t make this shit up. Wait, actually that’s exactly what they’re doing. Quick question: since global warming seems to be capable of anything, why can’t it cure the corona?
Experts? Don’t they mean “experts”? These people are experts at accumulating power and not understanding what are fundamental constitutional rights. Other than that. they’ve been wrong on pretty much all their predictions. In fact, I’d go so far as to say they’ve failed even more catastrophically than the people who study the topic in the preceding link.
The greatest newspaper in America is pissing off some people. I’ve got just two words: Pulitzer Prize.
Urine trouble
Somehow, I doubt this asshole will get the message that she’s the baddie. In fact, I’m certain of it.
The lunatics are still running the asylum. I guess the pols who are letting them get away with this value the union’s campaign donations more than the education of the city’s children.
This is what I like to refer to as a bit of a fucking stretch. But maybe it’s just me.
Oh sweet, merciful God. Please make the insanity end. I want to get off this ride.
After that set of links, this song rings true for me. Hope you enjoy it, friends.
Now get out there and have a great day.
My God, we really have entered the age of cowardice – nonsense one just needs one’s vaccine certificate and a double mask and one can party as long as proper distancing is respected.
“Somehow, I doubt this asshole will get the message that she’s the baddie. In fact, I’m certain of it.”
That story won’t die.
Also, sidebar.
We need to shout this story from the rooftops. This woman needs to be hounded out of the marketplace of ideas until she has to scavenge her food from restaurant dumpsters. Or rely on the kindness of Trumpsters.
^^^THIS^^^
As long as the consequences of this sort of shit are tame, the assholes remain assholish.
God only knows, if the shoe were on the other foot, she’d have already been fired by the LAT.
She left The New York Times to work as national correspondent at Yahoo News, and work for a San Francisco venture capital firm, before returning to write freelance for publications such as Wired, Politico and The Wall Street Journal.
I wonder if investors know that when they put their money into a VC that they’re being represented by idiots with no knowledge or appreciation of business, economics and finance.
LOL, you just can’t make this shit up. Wait, actually that’s exactly what they’re doing. Quick question: since global warming seems to be capable of anything, why can’t it cure the corona? – global warming is capable of anything bad. Nothing good can come of it.
This is by the way one of the things that make me skeptical. I would understand some regions get worse some better, some things get worse and some better. Everything getting worse implies in the 70 the earth had the magical perfect temperature.
The thing is, trees bud earlier after mild winters. And they bud later after harsh winters. And that’s been true since forever. These idiots don’t want to acknowledge that the percentage of earth’s timeline they’re measuring pollination from is insignificantly small relative to how old the planet is. But recognizing that doesn’t get grant money, does it?
but what about the poor cherry trees ion Washington DC?
Send them back to Japan if they’re having a problem in DC.
My wife has expressed interest in going to see the cherry trees in Washington. I point out we have one in our yard. The neighbor has one. There are two more on our street. And more scattered through the area.
In Animal’s article yesterday was a link to the Boreal Forest. A vast swath of flora and fauna that ring the planet from about 45 degrees North until the Tundra which never existed until 12,000 years ago. Where I live now was buried under miles of ice.
Where I live now was buried under miles of ice.- and it was better back then
It existed in some form, just further south. Black spruce trees still exist in pockets of the Appalachian’s as far south as West Virginia.
A quick example I found.
https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2003/01/ancient-wood-uncovered
There is a section of the Smoky mnts that has a stand of huge beautiful balsam firs as well.
“ancient wood uncovered”
CAVE SMITH?
The thing is, trees bud earlier after mild winters. – I know. We had a few mild winters and the stupid apricot trees bloom in march and there is an inevitable late march frost that fucks up the fruit. I am not 100% sure apricot trees are perfectly suited to the climate of Romania, but apricots are good, especially not fully ripe like the ones in the market
The cure is always less freedom, more wealth redistribution (enriching primarily the connected looking for power), and the standardization of a double standard (they get to fly and create mountains of CO2 because THEY are important, while the rest of us needs to go live in caves), Fuck them all.
Listen, nothing important happened to the earth before Progressives – so of course only the last 100-120 years of history matter. Everything else before that was bad, BAD do you understand. Only Progressives see the reality of this world, and the people in it, and only they can save us. Don’t you messianic-complex bro?
Just like Republicans!
/NYT
This. The entire “climate change” argument is based on pure anthropcentric hubris, claiming that we somehow know the “correct” temperature for a planet that is 4.55 billion years old and, for almost all of that time, has been much warmer than it is now.
You think they don’t know they are peddling any and all sorts of pure bullshit in pursuit of a specific and evil goal?
They just want to save humanity and the earth – how can you possibly think they plan to do evil? The joy of them watching Avengers End Game was in rooting for Thanos – he’s right you know, and terribly misunderstood.
The desire to do good, is in itself evil.
Animal, I was late to your party yesterday, as usual. Great article, I envy you, even though that may be a sin. A couple days ago a classmate and I were admiring Dan Seavey’s grit (Seavey’s Race Team, winners of several Iditarods) and wishing how we should have went to Alaska with him. Tate, Dan and I were classmates and went our separate ways after high school.
I occasionally wish I was 35 years old again but then reality sets in. Good luck, seems like you are way better prepared than Ol’ Tate and I would have been 60 years ago.
Enjoy the Last Frontier, we’ll be your back up from here.
Damn. That’s an article-worthy teaser!
To be fair, the original theory of warming happening “too fast” could have been a concern at the micro scale, but the whole thing was co-opted by Marxists. Of course, that it may have been happening doesn’t mean governments should “do something!!” about it.
As a forester I was mildly concerned about regenerating trees at the southern edge of their current range, since they would likely be stressed given warmer temps to which they aren’t adapted, causing poor growth and increased susceptibility to insects and disease among other issues.
I saw lots of poor practices when I did silviculture. Logging on steep slopes, too much drainage, not enough topsoil over the bedrock. Those babies weren’t going anywhere but 25 cents a tree.
Government must have been involved somehow, commercial ops aren’t interested in tossing money down a hole.
It’s all Government up here. Nobody listened, nobody cared. Numbers matter, not results.
Don’t be mansplaining to Gaia, yo. You’re not that significant.
Experts? Don’t they mean “experts”? These people are experts at accumulating power and not understanding what are fundamental constitutional rights. Other than that. they’ve been wrong on pretty much all their predictions. In fact, I’d go so far as to say they’ve failed even more catastrophically than the people who study global the topic in the preceding link. – I mean you can’t always get it right the first time, but this time they are not wrong. Until they change tune, but by that point what difference will it make
They won’t change, they’ll just evolve. That way the old positions were correct at the time, but now the new positions are correct at this time. Even if nothing else has changed.
they just fortified their positions
They want a hereditary system, where they keep power & wealth, lording it over those that are not part of their cabal, despite the fact that they are credentialed morons, inept on a scale that is frighteningly destructive, and can’t think their way out of a paper bag.
Public funding of elections will mean that the ruling caste won’t need to raise money from voluntary donations, and that anyone who wants to unseat them won’t be able to.
Eventually, they’ll point out that incujmbents never lose elections, and since elections cost money and expose the voters to $LETHAL_VIRUS_CURRENTYEAR, it really makes more sense to do away with them and keep incumbents in office permanently. And since they have so much more experience than anyone else as to how government works, it’s only sensible that they should get to pick their own replacements.
And frankly, if the tax cattle had any opinions worth considering, they wouldn’t be tax cattle, would they?
That’s what happens when you rely entirely on models instead of actual reality.
I mean computer models are great, but they don’t recognize the limitations, particularly that if reality frequently contradicts your model, you probably need to recalibrate the model.
I’m just wondering, how does this all end.
In fire and darkness.
I know my comment is snark worthy. But I am serious.
The vaccinations thing will likely fail, we have 3000+ variant’s.
Mask compliance is high wherever I go. Most business require them.
Economy continues to go downhill.
Walls in Washington.
Troops in Washington.
How does it end?
Submission to comfort.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Not exactly snark.
The vaccination cards will become another symbol that the person carrying it has gone through the proper sacraments, so if they still get the ‘vid, it shows that they must have failed in some other way. Quite a few of the die-hard Branch Covidians have a religious furor about them, and while I’m sure a bit of it is simple jealousy (why come you can go out and mingle with people while I stay locked in my house to save the world) there are too many who seem to think this is a death plague for all mankind.
I always figured if we were going to have Theocratic rule, it would be some flavor of Christianity, not Progressivism.
Progressivism is indeed a religion, and a surprisingly Puritan one at that.
I want the cool hat with the buckle.
Don’t forget the shoes!
But who will be Oliver Cromwell?
Richard Harris’s exhumed body?
The sad thing is that Cromwell told the General Assembly, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.”
Our modern Progressives don’t even have this basic level of self-awareness…
No they’re exactly like Cromwell – you may be mistaken, but not I.
Walls in Washington.
Troops in Washington.
How does it end?
I thinking many American’s perceptions on this are skewed from normalcy bias. How would we perceive recent events if watching elections in say Venezuela?
-> Non-establishment Venezuelan candidate begins unexpectedly winning ballot count
-> Millions watch as the ballot count for the non-establishment candidate actually deceasesin front of their eyes on television.
-> Establishment candidate wins and immediately fortifies the Venezuelan capitol with barricades and 30,000 military troops
-> Purges begin of non-loyal military and law enforcement across Venezuela
Would any of us be watching this unfold in Venezuela and think these steps aren’t right out of the banana republic playbook?
The next steps will be the eradication of the small and single business person.
Inflation (food) is growing.
Well said.
I knew we were in trouble when Honduras had an election that defeated the incumbent, but he refused to leave office or cede power.
So the military stepped in, arrested him, and exiled him. The military made a statement that they had to do so in order to protect their constitution.
I thought “Good for them for a bloodless prevention of a would-be dictatorship.” They even dropped him off somewhere nice, like Costa Rica.
So far, so good. But then Secretary of State Clinton released a statement condemning the “military coup” and going on about the danger of overthrowing the president.
I couldn’t believe the US had so firmly taken the wrong side.
That was early in the Obama administration. I should have sensed major trouble brewing.
This will end when there is a near-extinction level event of some sort and the few remaining humans are too busy trying to survive to have time for the luxury of taxing their neighbors.
Prosperity seeds its own destruction – in so many different ways.
Thanks for the nightmare fuel, Sloop. That chair is literally the creepiest thing that I’ve seen in days and yet, I would sit in it just to say that I had.
When you’re trying to pee during a commercial break and need to hurry back, sometimes a little still comes out. Pants seem to fit a little tighter these days which doesn’t help.
Ah. Another trickle-pisser… “Done! Not quite… Done now? Not quite…” It’s 4 in the morning.
Some things don’t get better with more experience. Mr Romo is a beginner.
Oh sweet, merciful God. Please make the insanity end. I want to get off this ride.
women want equal treatment with men in the workplace. Also extra free days.
OMKG SORRY not women, the beuterused, menstruators, People of Periods. I apologize to all glib womxn.
Also this brings a new meaning to genderfluid
Does genderfluid menstruation continue until retirement?
To be fair, the article didn’t single out women. It was “people with uteruses” which is exactly where I stopped reading.
So women who’ve has hysterectomies aren’t Real Women?
That’s problematic too.
Back to the woke drawing board.
It should even out though really, if they get 3 days off a month they will only be working 77% as much as Mxn.
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocks reporter who asked where Biden’s green jobs are after 1,000 people were put out of work with president’s decision to cancel Keystone XL pipeline”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9239485/Jen-Psaki-mocks-reporter-1-000-people-work-president-decision-cancel-Keystone-XL-pipeline.html
She psucks.
when wind power fails there will be plenty jobs pedaling stationary bikes to make electricity
Looks like I’ve got a role in the new green future!
If you don’t like pedaling, you can save up for the talent show.
+1 Black Mirror
The technology of that oddball show “Going Postal” comes to mind.
I wonder why she even answered rather than promising to “circle back” later.
She’s really not that good at her job.
The other day when she was flummoxed by a fairly anodyne question was quite telling. She didn’t even understand the reference. Bring back Kayliegh with her binders full of arguments and that can-do Tracy Flick spirit!
She was told the press were going to go easy on her.
The worst part is that the press did and she still failed.
I’d like to see Sarah Huckabee Sanders get some press credentials and utterly destroy her in questioning.
The Sarah Sanders bad lip reading is still one of my favorites.
https://youtu.be/8EsUNOIYyKg
This! That’s the Blonde from “Community”.
Sasquatch Steven? Just hope you’re not the slowest running reporter in the bunch when that guy is looking for love.
Maybe as the networks ratings go thru the floor, they’ll feel compelled to be a little more diligent.
Kayleigh looks like a blonde ditz, but isn’t one and had an apparently solid education and work experiences she was able to use.
Meanwhile Psaki has been doing press secretary work for twenty years and has never apparently been challenged to actually produce individual results. And it shows. She’s pretty much the poster child for political aides in modern America. Ride on the coattails and claim achievements.
This
She’s thin-skinned and incompetent.
Having little experience with handling things when they don’t go the choreographed script, she reacts. Usually it’s the “circle back” get me out of here but also the anger. The even totally in the tank reporter pool can sense when blood is in the water or at least gets their own back up when Psaki gets pissy. Something something even the most in the tank reporter can get tired of the schtick.
Kayleigh is quite interesting. She did Harvard Law on the community college route by doing the first year elsewhere. Broader experience and what only counts is she graduated from Harvard. She’s not a dummy. That was after several years of real life experience including as a Fox News producer (seeing how the sausage gets made) and then as a commentator (not as a sop to a former administration official but having to do well enough to get called back).
100% Ivanka hire.
‘Well, I’d certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won’t be getting a green job,’ Psaki retorted. ‘Maybe next time you’re here you can present that.’
She didn’t answer though, he asked when they are getting a green job.
She performed her job the way she’s paid to perform it: by being a snide asshole and avoiding reality.
“Wait, your administration just eliminated these jobs with the promise of green jobs, and I’m supposed to be the one with data on how many will actually get green jobs?”
Everyone needs two jobs to get by.
Or collect double unemployment?
Do they want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump!
They knew he’d win re-election.
That’s why they had to fortify the election.
‘Well, I’d certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won’t be getting a green job,’ Psaki retorted. ‘Maybe next time you’re here you can present that.’
Shouldn’t she present some argument in favor of the ‘green’ job position?
If a reporter walked in there with an easel and a presentation, they’d be told to shut up; it’s not a venue for them to talk. If a reporter asks tough questions they get told to bring evidence.
How is one supposed to ask tough questions and post the answers to YouTube in a world like this?
Lying by Omission, Shitweasel Journo Edition:
Notice how they smear the three-percent movement but somehow neglect to state that it is based on the three percent of American colonists who actively opposed the British.
Anti-Defamation League – does anyone still take these clowns seriously?
Just Democrats
That’s just crazy-talk.
It’s not globalist. It’s merely internationalist.
“globalist and socialist conspiracy” is afoot to “strip Americans of their rights and freedoms, starting with their right to bear arms.”
Germanic Mr. Clean and quintessential Bond villain Klaus Schwab could not be reached for comment.
I finished Skenerton’s Lee-Enfield book last night.
I will start Klaus Schwab’s “The Great Reset” tonight.
I’m sorry, is this person not a private citizen?
Social media destroys privacy.
Jeez when i read that Romo is getting 180 million from CBS i pissed my pants a little too.
let me know if the NHL has gone full retard or not.
Full retard is not achievable.
Many watched Tom Brady lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. The game marked the franchise’s second Super Bowl victory and Tom Brady’s seventh. Brady’s epic accomplishment has earned him the title of the greatest quarterback of all time, but many on Twitter appeared to have been triggered by Brady’s victory.
Brady is no stranger to criticism, of course. Last week, Nancy Armour attacked him in USA Today for not only being white, but for his apparent support for Donald Trump. Now, Twitter users are calling his victory over Patrick Mahomes “racist” … because it happened during Black History Month.
Odds that those calling Brady racist watched the game? Or would have even known the teams involved?
I like to think those that refer to themselves as BIPOCS were probably rustling up sandwiches for the boys and stewing in their own juices.
That article is close enough to full retard itself. Why report on Twitter users? Why?
I love that Brady has fuck you money and status.
“‘Creepy Joe is at it again’: President is blasted after telling a nurse running a vaccine site that she ‘looks like a freshman’ during a video conference”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9239103/Biden-called-cringy-Donald-Trump-Jr-tells-nurse-looks-like-freshman.html
OFFS!
I sometimes wonder what wildly inappropriate stuff I’ll blurt out when the old mind bone softens.
“We called it fresh meat back in my day.”
The simple question posed by Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial that begins Tuesday is whether a president who loses reelection can get away with a violent coup attempt in a desperate bid to stay in power.
When did he orchestrate a violent coup?
You don’t believe your lying eyes?
When they murdered that Capitol Police cop – who neither requested nor required any level of first aid, returning to his office where he died of a stroke hours later.
The fact nobody has yet apologized for the lies about him being bludgeoned to death with a fire hydrant or whatever yet, is just galling…
It’s all propaganda.
..and the state funeral they gave him, nothing any actual combat death has seen here, was so over the top.
Add to this all the fact that nobody is being charged with his murder.
But this is all completely normal to everybody on Team Blue.
Back the blue.
Three people were killed — all of them by cops.
The coup happened in 2016. When he stole the election from herself.
That fucking orange asshole managed to win an election that had been “fortified” to get the candidate the cabal wanted in charge, derailing the agenda of having government steal our freedoms in return for false promises of security and continue the selling out to the CCP in Beijing. This time, in 2020, they were prepared to add more fortification when the rubes again threatened to override all their work.
That’s my take. You never want to steal an election by too much; the more you steal, the more obvious it is. They miscalculated again, and so we had the coordinated stoppages, the eviction of observers, the handful of obvious ballot-stuffing caught on security cameras. This time, they had a backup plan. And with the Time magazine story, I think its again an open question how top-down and coordinated it was. It might have been locals going on a wink and a nod, or it could have been more organized than that.
I keep asking myself, what would look different if they actually had stolen the election? And I keep coming up empty.
I haven’t seen anyone juxtapose Joe’s “speak-o” about the most comprehensive election fraud organization ever and the Time article yet…
They’re afraid of Trump.
They’re afraid of a violent coup.
Therefore, Trump tried to stage a violent coup.
Don’t you even feelz, bruh?
https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1358988621672558593
Typical, just typical
A country full of cuntes is what we have.
Except the governor has specifically stated all local mask laws are illegal so I assume everyone will be forgiven.
That wasn’t me, that was a cardboard cut out.
12 Minute FULL BODY HIIT TABATA Workout At Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQrg4Dy2Xk
Pie has a type, I’ll give him credit for that… Shame that he could never catch her in a foot-race.
I am just spreading fitness content
That’s a Sunday gig.
Sunday it is too late for me
Spankavison!
Instead of that bubble gum punk, how’s about a really great songfrom one of today’s birthday boys? I just miss seeing his thoughts on ‘merica in my Parler feed. Love ya, Travis.
Yeah he’s an icon.
Okay, now do food. Oh, you want that to be free, too. I’ll be happy to talk to you about eliminating and lowering taxes, but I don’t see why you’re singling out Viagra; your prescription BC is tax-exempt for the same reason.
Which is your problem. I’m completely indifferent to discussions of menstruation; but I have the good grace not to discuss my poops in public, that’s also a natural bodily function.
^^ this in its entirety.
The only thing I would possibly agree with this girl on is making medical supplies tax exempt.
Are menstrual products really medical any more than toilet paper? Same thing, really. Disposable fiber products for absorbing and containing bodily fluids. I’d be totally okay with exempting essential goods like tampons and TP, but realize that opens the door to future shenanigans.
If by future shenanigans, you mean exempting other things from taxation, I say, let the shenanigans begin.
I’m not sure if you can use a health savings account for that, but I’d be for it. Recently someone introduced a bill that would expand the number of things you can use a HSA for, but I believe it failed. That person was none other than racist misogynist Rand Paul.
SAY HER NAME!!!!
OK, that left a mark Tonio…
You may want to speak to a doctor about that.
Baseball birthdays missed: #1 HoFer Vlad Guerrero, whose big (older, but smaller) brother I watched a lot at AAA. Heinie Zimmerman, Clete Boyer, and Vic Wertz were also above Kruk at #5.
Tex Hughson (who?) was between Kruk and Mookie.
I was going to criticize calling Kruk a utility man, but he played more OF than I remembered, even in Philadelphia. In the 1993 WS year, he played 100% at 1B, so that has affected my memories. 1992 was his last year to play any OF.
Vlad G 59.5 career WAR.
Wilton G -1.8 career WAR.
Wilton spent part of 8 seasons in the Majors.
I hope others enjoy my weird detours into baseball history, I do it for me, but like to share it. If you don’t enjoy, just move on.
But I looked at Wilton Guerrero’s similarity scores. The most similar player, statistically, in baseball history to Wilton was Sean Burroughs. They are, uhhhh, nothing alike in my opinion. Usually you can see (sometimes literally) the resemblance, but in this case, it isn’t there. But that makes it kind of fun.
For those who don’t know, Burroughs first became famous as a little leaguer for breaking a long string of Japanese dominance and bringing the LLWS title back to the US. Instead of peaking at age 12, he was good enough in HS to be a first round pick. Unlike Wilton, who played a little bit of everywhere, but mostly 2nd, Sean played almost entirely 3rd base. Wilton was a thin, fast Dominican. Burroughs was a chunky, slow, white guy from California. And yet, there you go. Burroughs ended with 5.6 career WAR, so was actually useful.
Both of them have an AL MVP relative to make them feel inadequate at family get togethers too as Sean is of course the son of Jeff Burroughs. And I think you might be holding Sean’s own Little League appearance/reputation against him a bit as I don’t remember him being “chunky” as an adult, his big issue as I recall was that he had no loft in his swing and no power. Made lots of weak contact.
no loft in his swing and no power. Made lots of weak contact.
And that is exactly where he is similar to Wilton Guerrero.
Just like all of the old Stanford guys Sean kinda found out that the kind of swing that finds holes with weaker defenders (and aluminum) and competes for a college batting title isn’t necessarily effective in the majors.
Sean wasn’t a Stanford guy of course, the Cardinal just come to mind every time I think of those single plane swings.
Love the detours. I have a funny John Franco story from when i was young. Pretty long dont think i could tell it all on here.
You’ll really want to check out Titty Tuesday’s Deep State.
https://archive.li/fkUyi
A new study finds that pollen season and its awful nasal drips is coming earlier and hitting harder — and that’s because of global warming
My eyes are watering just thinking about it.
But isn’t plants fornicating good for the environment? You people need to get a grip.
/looks out the window
Looks more like the trees are coated in snow and ice right now. Not seeing a lot of blooming going on. The storm front moving through has given me an annoying sinus headache though.
We are supposed to get a wonderful mix of rain, ice and snow Wed through the weekend. Should make for fun commutes.
What’s a commute?
I’m coming up on a full year of not stepping foot in the office.
I’m coming up on a full year of not stepping foot in the office.
#metoo
I like working from home.
I may have finally convinced the girlfriend that if she wants to watch a show that she’s going to randomly yell/talk at to please not do it directly behind me when I’m trying to work.
Captain Sir Tom Moore: Man, 35, charged over alleged offensive tweet about NHS fundraiser
The World War Two veteran became a national hero by raising more than £32m for the NHS during the first coronavirus lockdown.
https://news.sky.com/story/captain-sir-tom-moore-man-35-charged-over-alleged-offensive-tweet-about-nhs-fundraiser-12212582
See in civilized Europe you can’t just say what you want willy nilly
Well what did he say? Are they not allowed to repeat the “offensive” thing?
Limeys suck.
Hey, don’t judge the rest of us on just me.
He was a Scot who said something along the lines the only good English soldier is a dead English soldier and that he will burn in hell
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1358782276264488960
The first 2 responses make me want to commit knife crime.
That’s just run of the mill, friendly banter from those high-calorie heathens on the wrong side of Hadrian’s wall.
This is the tweet:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EttdRXGXAAEmxiA.jpg
And how can a 35 year old be a WWII veteran?
(I tried clicking the link but they wanted my data and I don’t play that)
Time travel.
/end sarc
It’s poorly written. The vet was a centinarian, who recently died. The 35-year old is a victim of the country’s draconian laws.
A 35 year old made hate speech on the dubya dubya dos veteran
Hogg makes first hire
On Monday, he announced the first hire for his pillow company, LGBTQ activist Brandon Wolfe.
“I’m thrilled to announce the addition of Brandon Wolf ( @bjoewolf ) to the Pillow Company’s activist advisory board. Brandon has years of experience in organizing for gun violence prevention, LGBTQ rights and he’s also just an awesome person,” tweeted Hogg.
Is anyone going to actually make a pillow?
Odds are that this is just a Producers-esque con to raise funds?
+1 Lincoln Project
Ya beat me to it..I just said it in different terms
I’m not sure I’d call it a con. It is just a simple nonprofit play. The right people put together a business with some noise about doing something good and then apply for a ton of govt grants.
The money will pour in if you have the right people on your board.
-1 Lincoln Project
+1 Solyndra
He’s the bite tester.
Curse you, frostback!
Quality control is paramount at Hogg Pillow Corps.
[golf clap] for Festus, with honorary mention for Limey.
Well, someone’s going to bite a pillow. Hooooooooooooooo boy.
Morning’ Rhy 😉
He basically made a shell company right out in the open
I assume he is just going to be drop shipping Chinese made pillows.
Made by pride by the Inmates Union of Camp 63
Yeah, and the puppetmasters will ensure they’re all bought, too. 100,000 pillows in the first quarter,
directly into landfillstraight to happy consumers who have had enough of Nazi death pillows.And nothing ever happened.
Wolf…Hogg, it’s like he’s not even aware that he’s setting himself up for “The Three Little Pigs” parodies. Thanks, kid, for making the Bee’s life easier.
OMG thats so icky….
It won’t be animal-rights correct to use down or feathers, and any synthetic from petroleum is out for climate reasons. Is he going to stuff the pillows with his own bullshit?
He will bless the synthetics as they roll out of the assembly line making them pure.
Organic cotton, grown by farmers of color on their
plantations worker-owned collectives.That’s what I get for trying to use non-GMO tags.
Chinese Uygur hair.
Zowie. You went there.
Nice.
He’s starting with the chief diversity officer and his advisory board.
Getting a jump on bringing in the consultants when you have a failing business?
Most successful start ups I’m aware of started with someone first making something till the point they needed help making said product. Then they hired on as orders grew. His organization is already getting a little top (or bottom, not making assumptions on Brandon Wolfe) heavy. I think I would pass on this investment opportunity.
Can you short a privately held company? ?
This would make an amusing reality show.
Experts advise caution as states lift restrictions despite unknown impact of Covid-19 variants
It is a coronavirus. Its variants will be more transmissible but less harmful. This was known about this type of virus until about Feb-Mar, 2020. Then we forgot everything about the human immune system and virology/epidemiology.
Regarding John Walker Lindh, did all the butt-fucking he endured make it totally worth it?
“Tony romo on national tv with pee pants. Tony, take an extra shake!”
No matter how you shake and dance the last few drops will fall in your pants.
You can’t expect a man to faithfully abide by the “more than two shakes…” rule, and have a 100% success rate at keeping his patch dry.
You have been on point lately
To be fair, he was laughing so hard at the Chiefs’ O-line that he just couldn’t help himself. Some chicks snort when they laugh and other ones pee, just a little.
What we need now is a totally stupid and futile gesture and the Minnesoda GOP is just the group to do it!
I dislike King Walz as much as anyone, but this is just dumb. The Minnesoda House is controlled by the DFL so you will never get it passed there. Impeachment is already being seen as a sham by most people because of the antics in DC and you are only making it sillier.
Why not simply introduce a measure to end the Emergency? And have a bunch of press conferences to hold the DFL and Walz’s toes to the fire? And maybe get working on a referendum to amend the constitution to make Emergency Powers only last 30 days unless they are renewed by the Legislature (by 2/3 vote)?
Why impeach an ex-President when they know that they’ll never get the 67 votes? Honk Honk
Because they want to pull the same power trips when they have power?
What do I win?!
“Shakopee”
This is where Tony Romo should move to.
My state also has an impeachment process we’re tolling through, and although I doubt it will happen, despite having R supermajorities in both houses, there is a non-zero chance.
One of the petitioners has his plan of attack: the point of impeachment of our governor is not a punishment so much as a warning that you cannot get away with gestspo tactics, not even once.
And Governor Useless (D-KY) has absolutely engaged in gestapo shit.
Sending out the state police to monitor church services on Easter and issue everyone in attendance mandatory quarantines orders being but one of his tactics. Another point of concentration has been the utter destruction of an already poor economy with arbitrary “essential” and “non-essential” business distinctions (which of course are centrally planned economic pipe dreams).
There are also several bills aimed at pruning his nuts, which I think are more likely to pass than him actually being impeached (which, in the long run, is the more important of the 2), but one can hope.
I’m just reminded of how much the Left freaked out when the government “shut down” and there was wailing and gnashing of teeth about the poor government workers who are going to be starving to death in the streets because they can’t go to work.
“Trump’s trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages”
Other than the Lincoln Project pervs and people who still check under their bed for Putin every night, and CNN employees apparently, does anyone really give a shit?
No.
Hopefully at least a few people will realize what a waste of time and money this is, all in a transparent attempt at revenge.
Oh they’re out there.
My Facederp confirms it.
Revenge of the Normies – is it time to take back control from the cognitive elite?
https://capx.co/revenge-of-the-normies-is-it-time-to-take-back-control-from-the-cognitive-elite/
‘Head Hand Heart’ is careful and measured in tone, but its implications are revolutionary
““Sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently, Americans have outsourced key parts of political life to Silicon Valley behemoths that were not designed to, and are not competent to, execute functions traditionally in the province of the government. The failure of our traditional political institutions and our traditional media to function as spaces for genuine political conversation has created a vacuum now filled by the social media giants—who are even worse at the job.”
“This, at least, is the argument advanced – over 300-odd closely reasoned pages – by policy wonk David Goodhart in Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century. Goodhart claims that much of the developed world requires a major change in the way we measure and reward social status. And part of the change involves stripping cognitive elites of both wealth and power. “We have reached Peak Head,” Goodhart argues. “All too often, cognitive ability and meritocratic achievement is confused with moral worth”.”
Sounds like a bunch of horseshit to me.
“in the way we measure and reward social status” – what is this we shit?
Without experts in govt allocating social status – some people don’t get their fair share (per expert opinion and whiny bitches).
“I’ve discovered [my husband] has been having an affair with his landlady[…]But I’m not sure what I’m most upset about — the betrayal or that he’s put me at risk of Covid.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13986518/shielding-covid-husband-having-an-affair/
I think I see the problem here; he started fucking someone else because you’re a flaming lunatic.
Herpes is so passe.
*Doris Day* Que Sera, Sera..
Who cares about HSV when you’ve got NHS?
“Like Young, he accepts that one doesn’t wish to be treated by a doctor who failed anatomy or advised by a lawyer who failed contract, but he thinks cognitive privilege needs to be limited in scope. The university sector should shrink and polytechnics be reinstated. Graduate-only positions ought to be scrapped except in limited, cognitively complex areas. Meanwhile, countries like Germany and Australia – which still educate most of those who work in skilled trades, so do not need to import them in the form of immigrants – are to be emulated. ”
Just get the fucking government out of it… but communitarians cannot go there
shit this was supposed to be a reply to my comment 29
Embrace your inner Brooks.
As long as the shitheads aren’t designing bridges and elevators I’m OK with it if it discredits the university racket.
Also, “cognitive privilege,” the Chinese are going to eat us alive and deservedly so.
So this may not be of interest to anyone but me, but a local artist is releasing books of some of the flyers he made for some CLE independent venues from 1995 through 2020. Here’s a sample of some of the later flyers, while here is where the books can be pre-ordered.
Not my preferred style of art. While certainly better than some more acclaimed artists and/or money launderers, it’s not my bag.
Cool
I wish I were that talented. *wistfully envious sigh*
Awesome.
Poor Tony Romo is a victim of America’s systemic racism!
Another person who is being castigated and run out of the public square based on the racist One Drop rule.
Everyone thank China and blame not
https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/1358920044193992704
I want Megan Kelly to stand over and criticize me while I do a brake job on her Lexus. Hell, I’d even pay for the privilege. “Yes’m Miss Megan! Sho’ nuff!”
Didn’t know you were German.
You want Megan Kelly but you’ll get Megan McCain and you’ll like it.
Sans panties?
Sho’ Nuff!
Chris Pratt’s brother, a Bay Area officer, may support a far-right extremist group
Such as?
An investigation by Open Vallejo first found that some of those intricate designs may have indicated support for the Three Percenters movement.
Ah. Belief in a constitutionally limited government is now “far-right”.
I stopped reading at the ADL mention. What was once a useful organization has decayed into politicized stupidity.
Do you think that the people running the ADL or the SPLC made a conscious decision to put the skin suit on?
“Man, we are all out of racism! What are we going to do? Can’t some klansman drag a black guy to death or something? You know maybe we could keep this thing going if we refocused on things like a white QB winning the Super Bowl during black history month?”
Or did they just naturally move to the silly place inch by inch and never notice that they are a sick parody of themselves?
Probably just the nutjobs and the grifters slowly obtained positions of power and the sane people either quit or retired because they didn’t realize what was happening until it was too late.
One consistent thing about Progressives – they are sure they know how to better structure the govt than what is in the Constitution.
That isn’t hard. The stupid Constitution is almost completely lacking when it comes to ways to use the power of govt to keep the rubes in line.
It didn’t even have a way to take their money from them via taxes so it could be spent more intelligently than they would have until the Right People fixed it with the 16th Amendment. (and how embarrassing that those rubes thought you needed to actually amend the Constitution instead of simply issuing Executive Orders)
It’s true progressives understand the constitution far better than conservatives in that it’s a piece of paper and the only thing that matters is power.
and so? Like in all honesty how is this news. This type of shit is so fucking disgusting and shameless.
“All too often, cognitive ability and meritocratic achievement is confused with moral worth”
Define Moral Worth.
And then tell me why you await instruction from others as to whom you should respect and/or admire.
A society that actively devalues intelligence is finished.
I agree.
Unfortunately our society has confused “educated” with “intelligent”, and credentials are like medals pinned on their chest.
Happy Impeachment Day! Are you ready for thrills, chills, sobs, and an endless stream of sound bites? Don’t worry if you miss it, you’ll see snippets on the news and in Democratic TV spots for years!
Will there be special pens?
You don’t even want to know how I misread that.
I would not be surprised. Maybe even matching masks.
America, let’s chat.
Meh.
It’s beyond time to drop the stigma surrounding periods.
I didn’t know there was one.
For starters, it’s a natural occurrence and most people with uteruses
Aka “women”.
As someone who personally suffers from each of these symptoms in a major way, I believe we deserve at least one day off when this kicks in.
Oh, fuck off.
That article is a steaming pile of bs.
Way to ensure women never get hired. They don’t have to go to work as much!
dipshit.
Remember the good old days when we used to make $0.72 for every dollar a man made?
As long as I get 3 paid days off each month too (for extreme horniness AKA Testosterone Retention Headaches), I am ok with this idea.
Reminds me of this.
You want to stigmatize the period? Demand to have a day off every month.
Why not simply introduce a measure to end the Emergency? And have a bunch of press conferences to hold the DFL and Walz’s toes to the fire? And maybe get working on a referendum to amend the constitution to make Emergency Powers only last 30 days unless they are renewed by the Legislature (by 2/3 vote)?
Do something practical, like end the emergency? Because they will then be responsible for every death and illness which follows. Much better to puff out their chests and preen for their donor base.
“You can’t shut it down, Moe! Whattabout the preening? Think of the preening!”
That sucks about Pratt’s Bro. From any media I can glean about the actor he seems a solid, funny dude. Everyone that goes after him for wrong-think seem to have their hair tightened into a bun that would put Granny Clampett to shame.
He refused to get on board with some woke shit early on and he’s white Christian. Now Pratt is a white supremacist.
A White supremicist that will invariably go back to bedding his hot wife, make babies and continue to act in films because he’s above the pay grade of the ones that they try to ruin. High five Chris Pratt!
yup
“This is a crystal clear example that climate change is here and it’s in every breath we take,” said lead author Bill Anderegg, a biologist and climate scientist at the University of Utah, who also has “really bad allergies.”
Of course it is. Case closed.
Ugh. We’ve got one bozo that writes and comments in the local rag. Every one of his letters has to do with the evils of wood burning stoves and fireplaces. This has been his bone of contention for decades. He hates his neighbor in the tony old district of town and said neighbor keeps lighting his fireplace on a cold winter’s morn. I’m on team neighbor.
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I’ll be watching you
But experts warn it might be too much too soon as variants pose an increased risk and the pandemic — almost at the one year mark in the U.S. — is far from over.
The experts can go fuck themselves.
‘Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free,’ she noted, detailing how ‘they also demand devotion to their brutal, us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause.’
Comparing Trump supporters to Hezbollah. She can go fuck herself.
“This has been a very tough process for everybody in the CPS ecosystem, notably our students and their parents,” Lightfoot said. “I will do everything I can to make sure that they have a seat at the table on anything that relates to their education and the education of their children.
Sure you will. Go fuck yourself.
His Instagram post showcasing the rifle rack, per Open Vallejo, featured the hashtags #willnotcomply (a common Second Amendment call to action), #3percenter and #blackgunsmatter, a pro-gun, pro-militia riff of the Black Lives Matter movement. (Daniel Pratt’s social media accounts have since been deactivated.)
The author of this article can go fuck himself.
For starters, it’s a natural occurrence and most people with uteruses will typically have their first one between the ages of 11 and 14.
“People with uteruses”? Go fuck yourself.
That’s a lot of fucking!
They are fucking themselves, though. I suppose you could stand around and watch if that was your kink.
Cops that refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws and that actually recognize limits to governmental power are the problem, you ought to know that.
They are called “Runners”.
Can this be a regular feature?
And also, do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
There is some legit snow coming down here.
No more of that knockoff snow?
street value?
Based on my county/town taxes and snowblower depreciation, -$1500/year?
No snow, but we are still #1!
/Tech rant on
How is it that a major DNS registrar doesn’t support 2048 bit DKIM records?
Now I’ve got to transfer my domains to someone who does. What a damnable nuisance and waste of time.
/Tech rant off
But are you “Master of your Domain”?
“Trump’s trial set to rock Washington and echo through the ages”
What a bunch of historically illiterate drama queens.
“OMG, this is just like that time Betty threw milk on Suzy in the lunch room for kissing Bobby at that party!”
In Betty’s defense, Suzy was a slut.
I am so glad I refreshed before making that comment.
Good old Suzy Rottencrotch.
“f the #Jan6 organizers were Trump supporters, then why did they attack us while we were objecting to electoral college votes for Joe Biden?
The attack RUINED our objection that we spent weeks preparing for, which devastated our efforts on behalf of Trump and his voters.
They placed pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC the night before.
They did NOT just target one party.
They targeted Republicans and Democrats.
They were against the government ALL together.
I was in the Chamber when the attack occurred.
I was very upset, scared, and terrified for ALL of us – every person from Capitol staff, press, police to every Member R and D.
I even made a video telling people to stop and they should protest peacefully.
I will be forever grateful to my Republican colleagues who bravely helped the police protect us and blocked the door.
They courageously risked their lives against the attackers trying to get in.
The Capitol attack was planned and organized, NOT incited in the moment by President Trump, and NO Republican Member was involved.
We were ALL victims that day.
And once again, Trump is the victim of the never ending hate fueled witch hunt.
This impeachment trial a circus for the Democrat media mob to entertain the masses that they have brainwashed and addicted to hate, so they don’t see the Dem policies being rapidly forced into place that are destroying our lives, stealing our freedoms, and putting America last.”
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1359130088323883022
We were ALL victims that day.
Oh fuck off.
She really is dim-witted.
She really is dim-witted.
When has Georgia elected a smart politician, on either side of the aisle? [Sam Nunn was probably the last one I can think of.]
To be fair, it’s no more stupid than the Democrat narrative that they were attacked by Republicans.
“Greenee”?
Mt. Greenee.
RIP Marty Schottenheimer.
Didn’t realize he’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s way back in 2014. RIP.
How ’bout them Reds?
Man, the Chiefs defense when he was coach was a thing to behold.
And thanks Lin Eliot for screwing the pooch.
Wasn’t it?! Points-makers, those guys.
2006 Chargers too – ball control offense with Tomlinson and great D. But Marty made a couple of terrible calls in the playoff loss to NE, that really cost the game.
those mid 00’s chargers teams not winning the championship given how much talent they had is crazy to look back on.
He’s the best coach to never won the big one.
The dusty baker of football but with far better tactics.
Speaking of dirty heat sources- I have been watching a bunch of “Make your own waste oil burning shop/home heater” videos. I’m not quite on board with the drip-tube delivery system, but I’m definitely interested. Some of them seem to work pretty well. If you get it set up right, it roars like a jet engine and turns cherry red.
Uffda. A depressing story about Minnesoda throwing money down a gopher hole and never being satisfied
“What kind of broadband do you have here at Bob’s Country Bunker?”
“We have both kinds, ‘Office of Broadband Development’ and ‘Governors Task Force on Broadband'”
I appreciate signs of another state being further up its own asshole than mine.
California says “Hold my Zima.”
That’s chump change. You need to catch up to Ohio:
I’m sure that the new fiber line going up in my rural town is somehow subsidized by either the state or federal government.
I know this is bad.
But honestly, at this point I don’t give a shit. We paid over $100k in taxes last year because my wife won a lawsuit recovering stolen funds. Yes. You read that right. My wife had money stolen from her by her shithead brother, had to go through a federal lawsuit that stretched to the Federal Circuit Court, lasted nearly 3 full years, and we had to pay income taxes to recover it. On top of the gobs of money spent on our lawyers.
So fuck it. If I have to pay that kind of money in taxes because we recovered stolen assets, I fucking want something in return, and though competent broadband is but a drop in the bucket, it’s better than most things gov tries to do for me, so I’ll gladly take it.
In Betty’s defense, Suzy was a slut.
That doesn’t make her (Suzy) a bad person.
SLuts are great. Hoe-bags on the other hand…
Holy playing favorites, Batman!
Cuomo has designated us “essential” and will be giving us vaccine to administer onsite.
I’m so sorry.
It’s not mandatory, is it?
My staff is split down the middle on the vaccine.
“Can we get it early as Tier 1C essential defense workers?”
Vs
“They aren’t going to make us get it, are they?”
The cowards jumping in front of old people because of essential make me furious.
Not as far as I know, and moreover there was no date or date range given so I’m reading it as empty PR at this point.
Mandatory vaccination opens the door for all kinds of legal problems.
Watch for government mandates that absolve private entities of liability. That will be the way it happens.
and you are only making it sillier.
Well, anything that reveals politics as sillier can’t be all bad.
As to the more “practical’ suggestions, don’t they face the same DFL majority as the futile and stupid gesture (effectively making them just as futile and stupid, but adding legitimacy to the rule of the majority)?
It would be close. The split in Minnesoda is more Greater Minnesoda vs Twin Cities.
The DFLers from the sticks are still fairly sane. They are the ones who are really keeping the state from bailing out Minneapolis and shoveling money to them for fixing up the riot damage.
I think it would really come down to messaging. The Voter ID campaign was way ahead until the DFL threw a bunch of money behind the “you are a racist if you vote for voter ID” ads. The suburbanites abandoned in droves.
There might be a good chance because Walz has fucked up the vaccine distribution pretty badly. A couple die hard proggies I know are now mad at him because of that. So you might get some traction from them now.
I just read that my state senator, along with another senator from da range, left the DFL last November and are caucusing with the republicans. I had written him last summer to voice my displeasure with Walz, and I’d guess others did as well. Good to see he is following his constituency.
On the last thread, I saw Rat on a Train and Chafed talking about New Hampshire vs. Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has always taxed non-residents on income earned while working in Massachusetts. Non-residents are allowed to apportion the tax, deductions, and credits based on how many days out of the year those non-residents work in Massachusetts. No one that mattered cared. I hated having to pay Massachusetts income tax during the time I worked in Massachusetts, but I don’t matter.
When Gov. Baker of Massachusetts caved to the Lil Rona Panic, he shut down offices and ordered companies to have people work from home. A lot of those people are not Massachusetts residents. Income tax revenues were at risk as Massachusetts allows non-residents to apportion income based on how many days those non-residents work in Massachusetts.
Baker decided to solve this problem by issuing an order that if are a non-resident that is now working from home because of Baker’s order, you have to pay income tax as if you were working in your employer’s Massachusetts office.
Gov. Sununu of New Hampshire decided to file suit. My guess is someone he knows got fucked over by Baker’s order.
I’m curious to see how much of my state tax dollars New Jersey expects to get from me this year, considering I haven’t set foot there in years.
All of it – just like New York.
The US should follow his example and tax all foreigners living abroad.
The first video of the Trump trial is out.
They did NOT just target one party.
They targeted Republicans and Democrats.
They were against the government ALL together.
And what if they were? Is there a lesson to be learned?
Try harder? That’s not it. How about STOP HELPING.
Gaaaah!
I love my job, and love my paycheck, but there are some definite moral compromises going on.
CEO gave a presentation about future expansion, and how it’s tied to how many tax dollars we can suck up. Apparently Saxony is coming through like gangbusters, but Biden hasn’t shaken the moolah tree enough to break ground.
Tis the world we live in.
I read an article in EE times that Intel should buy or partner with a foundry to remain competitive. Thought you might find this interesting.
https://www.eetimes.com/this-is-how-intel-gets-out-of-manufacturing/
I don’t think Jiim understands ATIC’s goal here. Intel would have to pony up more actual cash than ATIC thinks they’re going to get when GF goes public.
I figured out what I should make first when my food processor arrives. I’ll redo the Byzantine Mash and try to get the spice balance right.
Byzantine Mash is simple – carrots, parsnups, honey, fresh ginger, ground cloves. Last time I made it I was too heavy on the clove and it was all anyone tasted. It was the only example of Byzantine cuisine I found that I knew I could make.
Cooked?
And food processors are great. Tapenades, pesto, nuts and dried ftuit (kind of like one of SP/WebDom’s chia seed recipes), pepita mole…
yes, you cook the veggies until you could hand mash them.
You like recreating historical recipes too? That’s my favorite. I now have a container of asafoetida that I bought for Parthian Chicken (which was delicious).
I had an audiobook about the Byzantine Empire (by Lars Brown) where he mentioned a Western pope visiting and “complaining about the Greek food swimming in oil”. I wonder what he was served.
This guy’s presentations irritate me, but the recipes are interesting. Like this one for “Portugese Farts.”
I can’t stand that guy’s voice. (Max from Tasting history) Something about it just gets on my nerves.
Recreating historical recipes you say?
Have you read this article? It’s about an archeologist who works with Dogfish Head brewery to attempt to recreate ancient beers.
Yes, I think it was actually mentioned in a book I read about ancient Mesopotamia.
Would you happen to know where one can get their hands on that brew somewhere in Southwest Ohio? (or within a reasonable drive)
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Dogfish has any of the historical series on the release schedule for this year. If I had to guess for a decent spot to look for them, Jungle Jim’s would probably be the only one I’m aware of. Dogfish does let you search for beers on the site as well (under the Fish Finder).
Let the whitewash continue:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/who-concludes-coronavirus-came-animal-not-wuhan-lab
The conflicting origins aren’t mutually exclusive: That lab studies bat coronaviruses for fuck’s sake (not to say it is the origin but it’s certainly not eliminated).
It was WHO and Chinese investigators, so there was clearly no local influence.
Occam’s Razor says it came from the lab.
The ChiCom coverup (destroying a vast swathe of lab records) is consistent with that.
Narrator: It came from the lab.
This must be how it feels to be a dog’s chew toy
Experts warned the US needs to be very wary of another possible surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by variants, and urged local and state leaders not to ditch their safety measures and restrictions.
“We’re … seeing what happens in other countries when these variants take over,” emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen told CNN Monday night. “There is (an) explosive surge, even when the countries are basically in shutdown.”
Wen, who is a former Baltimore City Health Commissioner, added that the US faces “something really potentially catastrophic, and we should be doubling down on the measures that we know to work.”
“Double down on what we know works.” Everything works perfectly, as long as you never test it against reality.
Let go of me, goddammit. Stop shaking me.
*Slaps TLPB across the face*
Over Macho Grande?
I have to go to Albuquerque next month. I’m actually looking forward to getting out among new people and seeing different scenery for.a bit.
Two other SMEs should be coming with me, but one is afraid of snifflecooties (“I question the wisdom of traveling during a pandemic”) and the other is just annoyed at the lack of direct flights (the fault of cooties hysteria, not the cooties themselves).
The “why not just do a Microsoft Teams call?” argument loses because part of the meeting is too sensitive to transmit over phone or internet. It also ignores the fact that it’s human face-to-face communications that builds trust and the comradeship needed to keep us working toward a common goal.
I will shake every hand that is offered. Problem with that is that according to old fashioned etiquette, it’s the woman who should initiate the handshake with a man, but I don’t want to put cootie phobes in the awkward situation of deciding whether or not to shake my proffered hand.
Men will never refuse a hand extended by a lady unless it’s covered in scabies.
Women however….
Hand condoms with viracide. It’s the only way to feel safe. I hate this shit. Still have random strangers jumping back like the cooties are gonna get you from lice-hopping distance.
Hand condoms with viracide. It’s the only way to feel safe.
Festus, why do you want them all to die? This is the condom required.
This is the first I’m hearing of that.
The Lady proffers her hand for a kiss.
A kiss is not a handshake.
I’ll bet you don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon, either.
I wasn’t born until the Reagan administration, so I never asked that question.
That’s because NYers are savages.
Men should never demand that women allow themselves to be touched. So men should not initiate the handshake, only respond if offered. And also not to shake it with as much strength as would go into one given to a man.
If someone doesn’t walk away with a few bruised phalanges, it’s not a handshake.
Anyone that gives me the dead fish handshake because I’m a chick is in for a rude awakening when I crush their delicate intermetacarpals
If a woman extends the hand in the manner of a grip, rather than a touch, then you hold your hand in the same manner as you would your “frame” when dancing.
Honestly so much of human interaction would be easier if wrestling and dancing were common experiences.
Go on…
That’s part of the dance of the handshake – who offers, how is it executed, how do you respond, etc. Its a social ritual, which I predict isn’t coming back. Part of the campaign by sociopaths to dehumanize and socially isolate everyone.
That’s hawt.
At last year’s company Xmas party, our HR guy went around the table and shook every man’s hand like a man. Then he got to me, and gave me the palm-up, fingers-only “lady” handshake. I did crush his hand, because, silly me, I assumed he would shake my hand the same way he did my male colleagues’.
Interesting. I’ve noticed around here that post-game handshakes are making a comeback, as opposed to fist bumps. I’ve started paying attention to see what the other guys are doing so I don’t freak anyone out.
It also ignores the fact that it’s human face-to-face communications that builds trust and the comradeship needed to keep us working toward a common goal.
Yes.
If you’re trying to square that with my preference for working from home, there are times where it is much easier to get stuff done when folks are in a conference room. I have no problems with going into the office for that.
Also, If my coworkers want to meet for lunch, I’ll join them.
My current boss, sometime after things started opening back up, suggested getting his team together for a simple outing. Thanks to some reorganizations, he got a new set of people, some of which were new hires just before the office closed. Those new hires knew hardly anyone on the team. My boss brought this up at a team meeting. The whole team, even those scared of Lil Rona, thought it was a great idea. I was the one that found a place. We met one afternoon for ice cream at a place somewhat convenient to everyone on the team. The whole team showed up, even the folks scared of Lil Rona showed up. Though the folks scared of Lil Rona kept their distance from the rest of us.
Some higher ups got wind of what my boss did. He got a little shit from the higher ups about it. “This is really dangerous! If someone gets sick the company can get sued!” My boss had to explain to them that the company didn’t pay for it (we paid for our own ice cream) and it was completely voluntary. The highers ups let it drop.
I have to go to Albuquerque next month.
For you.
Remember in elementary school art class, when you used white felt to simulate snow for your little “winter diorama”?
That’s exactly what it looks like, out my window.
Temp- negative single digits; I guess I should consider myself fortunate. And the sun is out! Woohoo!
It also ignores the fact that it’s human face-to-face communications that builds trust and the comradeship needed to keep us working toward a common goal.
Commie spy, confirmed!
Dang it!
After all these years of embedding in the US. Missed it by that much.
I will shake every hand that is offered. Problem with that is that according to old fashioned etiquette, it’s the woman who should initiate the handshake with a man, but I don’t want to put cootie phobes in the awkward situation of deciding whether or not to shake my proffered hand.
You should whip up one of those old fashioned “handshake buzzers”.
“Haha, GOTCHA!”
“Joy-Buzzers” They were offered in the back pages of every comic book, like X-ray Specs and Charles Stlas trainining regimens.
I wouldn’t be able to resist making a custom one. I’m a high voltage engineer, after all.
do it.
doo eet!
My high voltage anti-squirrel bird feeder was pretty sweet…
Squirrels disagree. However, they did think twice before going back for another shock. You could hear the wheels grinding in their pea brains as they contemplated going back for another attempt at seed theft.
That gave me a big smile! Not the rictus type! Well played.
I remember seeing those in this documentary starring Caesar Romero and Adam West.
A sparking ring is way more fun
It is basically a joy buzzer with a piece of flint in it. So when you hit the button the spring whips across the flint and shoots sparks everywhere.
I used to use it when putting together IoT demos. You’d palm it and be telling some sales drone who was going to be in the booth that everything was great but just be sure to watch out for this one particular spot because we couldn’t fully insulate it. Then you’d point at a spot and hit the button and it would look like sparks were shooting out of your hand.
Always a lot of fun to see f anyone had Tony Romo’ed.
Even amid a dip in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations nationwide, easing restrictions now is “incredibly risky,” said Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It is absolutely essential that we continue to do steps beyond vaccination to keep this under control,” Besser said. “The reason for that is, that the more this virus is allowed to spread in our communities, the more we’re going to see these variants spreading.”
“And if the vaccines aren’t as effective against some of these variants, then we could see the gains that we’re so excited about right now, we could see those reversed in a very short amount of time.”
So you’re saying the vaccine does nothing?
This is akin to AIDS crisis except that instead of asking for the gays to suit up, they’re asking everyone to stop fucking forever.
Why should the vaccine really be effective when your own natural immunity (post-infection) is meaningless?
I’ve taken to asking people – how many times were you immunized against polio?
Seems like a tacit admission that the actual Covid tests are junk. Just because one says you have/have had it doesn’t mean that’s the case.
#BREAKING
THIS IS THE 1 BILLION #NordStream2 DEAL, THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFERED TO THE #TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN LAST AUGUST.
Forget everything you have heard about Trump corruption.
Germany wanted to top that in cooperation with the previous US govt. to support the Putin regime.
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1359080317617848321
Honestly 1 billion does not seem much for a country unnaturally fond of trillion dollar deficits like the US of A
I wouldn’t be able to resist making a custom one. I’m a high voltage engineer, after all.
Not that I would ever attempt to lead you into temptation, but an old timey mechanic’s trick was to charge up an ignition capacitor and then toss it to some unsuspecting victim.
Tossing the ol charged capacitor was already an old trick when I was in college.
I don’t do it anymore now that I work with capacitors that can store (and release) lethal energy.
I don’t mix pranks with the lethal shit.
Comrade Biden now says women out of work, children out of school is a grave emergency which must be dealt with.
DAMN YOU, FORMER PRESIDENT CARTOON VILLAIN!
“REMINDER: Twitter is no longer allowing users to post pictures of Biden acting inappropriately with children. You are no longer allowed to post any of the famous photos of him touching the penises of small boys, the breasts of small girls, or kissing either. ”
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1359142207752704002
The Secretary of Defense has put the military on a 60 day stand down, to purge elements disloyal to the regime or something. It seem like a big deal but news sources are dogging-in-the-night about it. Can any of the militarily connected Glibs tell us a bit about what’s going on?
Ramping up it Syria?
Nothing yet
Nothing down the civilian side, and no impacts to events scheduled with active duty units – so maybe mostly for media consumption?
On an semi-related note, I completed training on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) yesterday. This is the designation that will replace For Official Use Only (which was used to FOIA-exempt unclass material). For those familiar with classified information and caveats/markings – it is essentially the same thing for unclassified stuff. It is a bureaucratic nightmare, and I’m pretty sure I detected at least 2 or 3 diametrically opposed objectives embedded in the training.
Now for a real funny – the Army has been pushing hard to go unclass for a lot of tactical systems; while also deciding that too much information has been unclass on the budget, R&D and Science & Tech realm. But the Army’s unclass tactical designation – Sensitive But Unclassified – runs afoul of the new CUI policy, since it doesn’t conform. Much hilarity is sure to ensue.
“For British Eyes Only”
What happens if you get a cornea transplant and your eyes are half-british?
“William J. Burns, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the CIA, is president of a think tank that has received up to $2 million from a Chinese businessman as well as from a think tank with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
As president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns also invited nearly a dozen congressional staffers to attend a junket to China, where they met with a communist party operative and a president of a Chinese front group.
Burns, who was paid $540,580 last year as president of Carnegie, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing likely to be held this month. He has been president of Carnegie since March 2015.
During Burns’ tenure at Carnegie, a businessman named Zhang Yichen joined the think tank’s board of trustees.”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/08/william-burns-joe-biden-cia-china-carnegie/
They sure like to use the word PRESIDENT a lot. Like when it was Trump it was usually just “Donald Trump” + ad hominem + lie, and now it’s DOCTOR PRESIDENT COMMANDER IN CHIEF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. Hey America, just in case you are a horrible white nationalist nazi insurrectionist, we’d like to remind you that PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS PRESIDENT because you are stupid deplorable ugly folk dregs and you need to know that. PRESIDENT.
And also that the orange man who is BAD had some accounts in China about which he was fully transparent and which are not unusual but STOP LOOKING AT JOE BIDEN’S CHINA DEALINGS AND FOCUS ON HOW BAD ORANGE MAN IS DDDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
“10) Whether by Trump supporters gone wild or infiltrators, this was a planned and well executed situation. It did not happen organically. Also, there was very little security and very little struggle to breach such a high level building.”
https://twitter.com/Twinity5/status/1347346207547551744
Which is why FB banned unofficial videos of the event.
Totally unprecedented.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/181-arrested-at-capitol-hearing-during-protests-about-gop-health-care-bill/28737/
That was 9/25/17
6/28:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dozens-arrested-protesting-gop-health-care-bill-on-capitol-hill
7/10:
https://time.com/4852328/80-health-care-protesters-arrested-washington-dc/
7/19:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-arrest-155-health-care-protesters-at-us-capitol/2017/07/19/c6a04286-6cd4-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html
6/22:
https://dcist.com/story/17/06/22/police-remove-disabled-demonstrator/
Interesting, Gustave.
I wonder how many were actually charged? I recall that there were no charges filed against those arrested during the riots celebrating Trump’s inauguration.
this was a planned and well executed situation
Uh…not from what I saw.
They’re having trouble deciding if Trump’s speech caused them to do that out of nowhere, or if it was meticulously planned for months.
There have been bombs detonated in the Capitol Building before.
Shut the fuck up with “TODALLY UNPREZEDANTED!!!!111one”
Cunte News Network.
CNN’s Randi Kaye said she called the police over maskless fans in Tampa, Florida, celebrating the Super Bowl.
“I gave a call to Tampa Police to ask them what’s going on with all these people that are out and about and not wearing masks,” the snitch explained Sunday on the air, “there is a mask mandate in the City of Tampa while this pandemic is underway and during this time of the game there.”
Randi Kaye
Anagram for “A DIY Karen”?
wow
If we are going to use Karen as an insult BTW, this is a Karen. At some point during 2020 Karen morphed into any female asshole. A lady refusing to wear a mask in a supermarket and making a scene is not a Karen. She’s…something, but not a Karen. Karen follows the rules to a T, is snitchy, and always living in fear.
Thanks for listening.
Karen is the schoolyard tattletale who never grew up. No more, no less.
She is a little more, since she can now call down the wrath of troopers upon disobedient children.
Ah fuck me. It’s snowing again. Just added two hours onto my day. How the fuck can it snow at this temperature? Fuck my life. I’m a walking piece of beef jerky.
Fuck my life. I’m a walking piece of beef jerky.
Plaything of the gods.
Meanwhile, in Australia…
The Guardian
@guardian
Koala gets behind the wheel after causing pile-up on Australian freeway – video
“after?”
Pandemic of substanceless accusations and outright bullshit
Being mostly rural and far from the coasts didn’t protect North Dakota and South Dakota from Covid-19.
After a spring and a summer of flimsy or nonexistent public health measures, politicization of the pandemic and rampant misinformation, the states were tinderboxes.
Then came the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August. The gathering of nearly half a million people in a small town in western South Dakota sent case numbers and deaths soaring in both states.
By November, North Dakota had the highest coronavirus infection rate per capita in the world. In South Dakota, the death rate reached a global high.
Unlike states that had soaring case counts early in the pandemic, neither North Dakota nor South Dakota ever issued stay-at-home orders. Mask mandates, if they came, came late. Yet numbers in both states have come down significantly since the late fall peak, and the Dakotas have emerged as national leaders in vaccine distribution — both are closing in on 5 percent of their total populations’ being fully vaccinated, putting them in the top five in the country.
But beneath the surface, experts fear that the success could be tenuous: Misinformation, a false sense of security and the politicization of infection prevention measures are setting the stage for a possible second surge.
The truth is nothing but a slobbery, tattered dog’s chew toy.
I hope the person who wrote that ends up involuntarily institutionalized, as a danger to itself or others.
My brother lives in western Iowa just across the border from South Dakota. He says people there have a different risk tolerance than most people. They are descendants of people who settled the plains, who built farms out of nothing and had to deal with hostile elements and hostile Indians. They expect to have to deal with danger and to them the virus is just another thing you deal with.
To the bat-flu data, Robin!
Sturgis was August 6 – 15. New cases would have shown by the end of August. All data is one week trailing average.
ND – 08/16 18.6 new cases
09/03 – 34.3 new cases
And then it plateaus for a week or two. So, in ND, assuming the entire increase was due to Sturgis, we get, call it, fifteen “surplus” cases a day for a couple of weeks, or around 200 or so new cases, total. The real spike in ND didn’t start until a month after Sturgis, so I don’t think you can attribute it to Sturgis.
SD – – 08/16 – 10.8 new cases.
09/02 – 39.3 new cases. This is a sharp little peak, which is pretty consistent with Sturgis being an event that spread the virus. So, the grand total is 29 surplus cases a day for 14 days, or just over 400 new cases, total.
And then it declines for a week or two, before the real run-up begins a month after Sturgis.
Oh, and for context, SD’s peak was 164.8 new cases (one week average) on November 14. Four times the post- Sturgis peak.
Prosecute these insurrectionists.
A proposed bill in North Dakota would allow the state to ignore any executive orders handed down from President Joe Biden if said orders don’t jibe with the Constitution.
House Bill 1164, submitted by Republican State Rep. Tom Kading, reads:
The legislative management may review any executive order issued by the president of the United States which has not been affirmed by a vote of the Congress of the United States and signed into law as prescribed by the Constitution of the United States and recommend to the attorney general and the governor that the executive order be further reviewed. Upon recommendation from the legislative management, the attorney general shall review the executive order to determine the constitutionality of the order and whether the state should seek an exemption from the application of the order or seek to have the order declared to be an unconstitutional exercise of legislative authority by the president.
Another Nullification Crisis!
+1 sanctuary city
The statewide mandates, Carson said, made a noticeable difference in how North Dakota’s case numbers fell compared to South Dakota’s.
“Cases fell more slowly in South Dakota than in North Dakota,” he said. What’s more, “although recorded cases of positive Covid-19 tests were roughly the same in both states, North Dakota was issuing about four times as many tests as South Dakota at the time and had a positivity rate that was about four times lower.”
So the “rate of infection” is the same.
And a “case” is 24 cans. STFU you lying piece of shit.
Experts say another reason case numbers rose and fell sharply was that many people were infected around the same time.
Clusters of infections sprung up in groups that frequented the same places and perhaps took greater risks — for example, friends who went to bars together, Carson said. Infection rates fell as those groups recovered and were likely to have become immune and unable to spread the virus for several months.
Indeed, Carson and Kurra credit the hyperlocalized clusters of herd immunity as a key factor that helped curb the surge of cases in the Dakotas.
At least 1 in 9 South Dakotans and 1 in 7 North Dakotans have tested positive — twice as many cases per capita as in New York. Carson said the real number is likely to be double that.
Wait, what?
If people stop taking precautions to stop the spread of the virus, risky behaviors will ultimately expose those who haven’t yet contracted the virus or been vaccinated.
“It’s still too soon to let go of the gas at this point. Even with the vaccine, we still need to live in the virtual world before we can safely go back to normalcy,” Johnson said.
Phew. You had me worried, for a minute.
We’ve been sending workers into peoples homes since May. Every week day.
There is no “virtual” work for our company.
In this year’s crop of Mandatory “training” was a heap of bullshit called the “Gender Identity Toolkit”. It appears to have been designed by the same people who spew that garbage, because all I needed to do in order to have it count as completed was open and close the ‘course’. There was no “exit” button in the ‘course’ itself. This is what diversity hires get you – they can’t even make a training module that forces the trainee to engage the content.
Death by Snoo Snoo is not an option, big man. I’ll run and run and run.
A Gender Identity Toolkit sounds as if it should include the hardware required to add or remove the appropriate…ummm…parts.
It does sound ominous. But it’s one of the worst constructed “courses” I’ve seen in our annual claptrap. And I’ve been having to deal with this for years. It’s the first I’ve seen which does not have a “Close course” or “Exit” button in the course proper. I had to just close the window.
It also looked worse than ameteurish in interface, and I knew what the content was going to be filled with.
“Complete with glitter glue and rhinestones to decorate your shenis!”
With trepidation about drugs falling out of my ass, someone needs to go back and link “The Sound Of Science” from yesterday. I lack the skills.
In “journalism”:
I saw a news report about Gourmeltz on you tube.
It started with a reporter standing out side Gourmeltz in an empty parking lot talking about how the owner was refusing to comply with the sacred rituals to keep the coof away.
Then he interviewed two women in their cars and both were very sure that this would cause death and destruction.
It finished with the state hasn’t responded yet, and we’ll see what happens.
I guess it would have been too much trouble to go when it’s open, and PACKED to ask some of the customers why they would go there.
It’s supposed to snow this weekend so I won’t be making the drive, maybe next weekend, but if you’re close, I recommend it, food is excellent and no masks or stupid distancing required.
Also not mentioned: Did they talk to the owner and would he have been willing to talk to them.
Tapping out for now. Best wishes all!
a heap of bullshit called the “Gender Identity Toolkit”.
Sounds like a “how to” course on making yourself un-fireable.
I’m a permanant state employee.
I’m already unfireable.
Part of the Hawaiian Shirt Brigade?
My Hawaiian shirt is a solid blue shirt with yellow embroidery above the pocket that says “Hawai’i”.
Not Adahn can confirm, he’s seen it.