Another Shabbos is upon us, and reflecting back over the past week, shit has gotten ever weirder. On the one hand, it’s kinda fun to sit back and watch the chaos. On the other hand, we don’t really have the ability to duck into a hidey-hole yet (though I’m eyeing dropping a trailer on a corner of Francisco d’Anconia’s Unabomber retreat). Gripping hand, there’s nothing we can do, we have no control over events, and may as well just keep our heads low as long as we can.
Speaking of which, the inevitable birthdays include a guy who always makes me hungry when I read his stuff; someone whose example should have been followed by every First Lady; the greatest American artist, in both senses of that phrase; a mixed bag, but generally a good guy on the Supreme Court (who, in his favor, despised Hugo Black); a guy who, before he went coocoo for Cocoa Puffs, was solid; a guy who fit right in to the Chicago mayoral traditions; a guy who provided fodder for Tom Wolfe; one of the few women who didn’t fuck Captain Kirk; a musician whose lionization I still don’t understand; a pitcher who took losing very seriously; a guy who is famous because… actually, it escapes me; and a decent wide receiver, but no Jerry Rice.
Now the surreal news.
From the Department of Who Cares?
Why would a guy from Baltimore have to go to LA to get robbed?
Thanks for giving your money to smarter people, dumbass.
“It was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”
In case you were wondering about what Heroic Mulatto was up to.
Old Guy Music today seems weirdly appropriate.
“Six Syrian brown bears – some said to have been rescued from people’s homes – were taken from towns in the south to their new home in the Gara mountains.”
They keep bears in their homes?
The thicc bears end up spending most of that time traveling to exotic locations anyway
From the looks of the video the bears looked more confused and playful than ‘attacking.’ But WTH do I know.
It was an inursusrection!
“If your insurrection last longer than four hours…”
Also, unless I’m very much mistaken, a hearty “Fuck off, Tulpa!” is in order.
So say we all! Fuck off, Tulpa!
Thank you! Alas, I’m one of the shadowy lurkers, here to submit my yearly comment. I’ve received several of the obligatory greetings in the past, but I suppose they have an expiration date.
Great handle, and happy kitteh in your avatar! Hope you pop up more often.
Good Morning All:
Chickens are crowing, snow is coming, freezes are upon us.
What happened to global warming?
It’s “Climate Change” now. So they’re right no matter what happens. It’s SCIENCE!!!!
will someone get us some heat. I’m tired of the cold.
I’m not an expert, which will become obvious as you read this comment, but a warming of a few degrees wouldn’t make cold fronts go away. Like if it would have been 17F but is 20F instead that’s still a snow event.
I don’t believe anthropogenic warming or cooling is occurring on a significant or noticeable scale, but the existence of cold weather isn’t something that disproves it.
I’ve been watching that excellent video series, The Fall of Civilizations, that you glibbies recommend.
From the episodes that stretch back thousands of years, especially the one on Sumerians, it’s clear that climate change and cycles is just the way the earth works , and that its effects are clearly noticeable even within human history.
The episode on the Songhai culture in sub Saharan Africa includes a bit on the influence of the precession of the Earth’s axis on seasonal rain patterns.
Modern Climate Change scanners are either too short sighted and ignorant to understand this, or they’re counting on the sheep being sufficiently ignorant that they can be fleeced for “protection money”
Earth’s ability to adapt and mankind’s ability to adapt to Earth in turn will see us through. Things might become a little different, and land use along with it, but it was ever thus.
You must have missed the last email, lovely one. We’re doomed. DOOOMED!
You mean I should have been worrying instead of spouting tomatoes and peppers for the garden? There I go living agsin…
How is your husband doing? Is he up and at it again?
Slowly improving! I ghost wrote a message to his doctor through the clinic’s message page, describing symptoms and admitting to not taking prescription meds.
They called him later and told him to take the meds. I’ve tried him I need help with various errands. So he’s getting up more.
Yesterday he ate half a burger, so that’s getting better too.
I hope they will screen him for colon cancer; family history, and he has some risk factors.
Thanks for asking.
“Climate Change Crisis”
Upgrade and needs way more money. Help is on the way
/Joe
There is still global warming. The science tells us that around 1998, all the warming switched from the atmosphere to the deep oceans, acidifying the oceans in the process and killing all the coral reefs. All the experts (computer models) tell us this is going to switch back to atmospheric warming soon and it’s gonna be devastating, catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic!
Most rubes and laymen don’t understand the complexity and nuance of the science, so the term had to be changed.
“Toby SantaMaria, a graduate student studying plant biology at Michigan State who identifies with the gender-neutral term Latinx and was attacked online by followers of the Twitter account, welcomed the professor’s resignation.”
It sounds like they had it coming.
“Thanks for giving your money to smarter people, dumbass.”
Paywalled.
Same here. I assume this is another cautionary tale trotted out in the news to scare regular people away from the stock market, similar to that suicide story a few days ago.
My guess is after the Gamestop short squeeze, Wall St is pushing to go back to the good old days of making us call a broker to place trades or have trades evaluated before they can be placed online. That way, they can continue their manipulation without having to take an occasional loss.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_States
I just hit the refresh button and then hit Escape a few times while the page was reloading.
Anyway, it was the standard “I was a prudent investor, then I saw the huge gains some of my peers were claiming to have made on WSB. I subsequently pissed away my whole next egg making stupid trades on RobinHood.”
The author is in his late 20s (so not experienced) and a public schoolteacher (so not all that bright), and had never heard the old Wall Street adage that
Bulls make money,
Bears make money,
Pigs get slaughtered.
Pigs get fat.
Hogs get slaughtered.
What happened to global warming?
It’s keeping its distance. It’s afraid of catching teh pandemic super stupid.
What happened to banning plastic bags to save the oceans? They’ve been back in stores since the ban was rescinded when virus panic took hold last year. Instead we’re dumping thousands of tons of surgical masks.
They were just trying to make the Smith family feel at home.
That story makes my head hurt. Easier to just hate everyone involved and move along.
>em>Schmidt said in a statement posted to Twitter that he would step down “to make room for the appointment of a female board member as the first step to reform and professionalize the Lincoln Project.”
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
I demand ritual suicide on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. En masse.
?
His pals Seeschmidt and Raumschmidt could not be reached for comment.
STEVE SCHMIDT INVADE YOUR SOUTH, EMANCIPATE YOUR RECTUM
Wrecked ’em? Damn near killed ’em.
Off to a good start, I am.
Morning sex?
With or without a partner?
reflecting back over the past week, shit has gotten ever weirder
I’m prepared to go forward
“‘The whole Cuomo family are scumbags’ CNN’s Chris is slammed for covering for brother Andrew by ignoring his nursing home deaths cover-up – even though his colleagues have turned on the governor”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256103/Chris-Cuomo-fire-saying-brothers-COVID-deaths-coverup-scandal.html
“Cuomo keeps a low profile and avoids reporters at Oval Office meeting with Biden as Republicans and Democrats demand he resign for covering-up the true COVID death toll in New York nursing homes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9255771/Cuomo-looks-sheepish-Oval-Republicans-Democrats-join-calls-resign.html
I’m loving this.
We knew about this ten months ago. Why is it finally coming to light? Nevermind.
I have no idea. It started with the far-left DA “breaking” the news last week or the week before. I can only surmise that the Dem hive-mind has decided that Cuomo needs to go. I shudder to think who they plan to install next.
Herself.
Or Herself Mini Me, AOC.
I meant the Attorney General, not “She Who Must Not Be Named”.
That… actually makes sense.
DA is the usual stepping-stone on the way to governor.
Which explains why NY has had a long string of repulsive governors.
People knew of it and were sure it happened but the media was still able to not report it until his aide came out and actually confessed. Now its kinda impossible to ignore—but im sure they will try.
I’m glad that people are no longer claiming that Emperor Cuomo is wearing clothes, but I find it pretty terrifying that the media was able to, in unison, insist upon it for 9 months, effectively, until the election and then let up right after the inauguration.
Cuomo, Wolfe and the others need a perp walk.
Yeah, the timing is something else.
LOOK OVER THERE! ORANGEMAN IS BEING IMPEACHED!! THAT’LL TEACH HIM!
The media is the real issue. Politicians are gonna politician, but without an even moderately neutral third-party to call out their BS, we’re all screwed.
One might even say that The Media Is The Enemy (TMITE).
Welcome and fuck off, Tulpa!
So that’s what that means. I could never figure it out.
And thank you!
And don’t forget its online equivalent, SMITE (Social Media Is The Enemy)!
Between Cuomo and the Lincoln Project getting sent to the camps after the election, do you think that other grifters will learn?
Or next time there is OMB pol in the White House, will they find more useful idiots?
They’re going to take his Emmy away.
“Violence erupts in Manhattan as BLM clashes with the NYPD: Eleven protesters are arrested, two cops are injured and gang of 15 activists attack photographer during chaos in Times Square”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256261/BLM-protest-turns-violent-Manhattan-cops-clash-activists-leading-11-arrests.html
New York is doing great.
I wonder if the painfully woke New York Daily News will learn any lessons here.
Only send reporters that are approved by BLM/antifa?
Fake news. Now that OMB is gone, we are in a period of healing and unity and the mostly peaceful protests are now totally peaceful.
“China ‘refused to give WHO scientists raw data on the first 174 Covid cases identified in Wuhan, hampering probe into origins of the pandemic'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256723/China-refused-scientists-raw-data-174-Covid-cases-identified-Wuhan.html
Not suspicious at all.
ADV China has been doing a ton of good work on this lately (and since it all broke last year). Highly recommend subbing to their podcast – although you get a lot of vid clips watching on youtube.
China and the WHO are so transparently full of shit on this it’s ridiculous.
I shouldn’t have looked: -26.
Eek.
My kind of weather. Sigh.
I thought (((you people))) were desert people.
After listening to my whining about Arizona weather for the past two years, how can this be any surprise?
Damn, I miss Montana.
-33 this morning, coldest day so far this winter but not a record setter
“Passengers flying into Canada will be forced to pay $2,000 to stay at a hotel for at least three nights until they get negative COVID test results back, Justin Trudeau announces”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9254847/Air-travelers-Canada-isolate-hotels-starting-Feb-22.html
WTF, Canada?
Easier to just sneak across the border.
“eat the rich” He’s punishing snowbirds that will never vote for him.
On a work call the other day, one of the guys lives over in the Winnipeg area. He was talking about some snowbirds that had a trailer down in Florida that they wanted to check on as winter started. So they told the Canadian government there was an emergency at the trailer, so they got permission to go down. He said that when they got down there, they were met by police, who asked about the type of emergency. As there were none, they were shipped back to Canada with a five year ban on entering the USA.
Now that’s how you police-state.
Even easier just not to go at all.
I don’t care a whit about the video, but for my money this song by the birthday boy is just incredibly sexy.
I’ve been a huge fan since 1980. I literally hitch-hiked to Vancouver to see his show in 1983.
My favorite song of his. That entire album is killer.
Worked late last night so just caught up to Riven’s post. Me and the Admiral never did see eye-to-eye but I still kinda miss him. He was the sort of man that was the best at everything and I didn’t quite measure up. It’s been a few years now. Mom’s passing was a relief. No more guilt about the lack of phone calls and the like. I am a selfish creature who will die alone someday just for writing these thoughts down.
I’ll always be there, Son, until I won’t.
“In case you were wondering about what Heroic Mulatto was up to.”
This story can’t be about HM. There is no mention of ass eating in it.
No “punching down” either.
27° and snowing in Seattle. I’m going to stretch out real good and jog along the ship canal out to Huskie Stadium. Glorious morning.
Take care. PNW drivers can’t navigate ice and snow.
You are way more motivated than I am. ?
I know a guy who is the spitting image of Hagrid with a hair/beard trimmed up.
Go drink at any random biker bar.
I mean he has the same exact face. He would nail it if he cosplayed.
Great Mother Gaia that Tommy Moore story got dark fast!
Shocking
Government aid programs have long been fertile ground for scammers. But the scale of the fraud in the unemployment program created by the CARES Act has reached a staggering level, state and federal officials say.
The Labor Department inspector general has yet to complete a full investigation but, based on previous programs, estimates at least $63 billion of the $630 billion in disbursements has been misspent. The full scope of the loss in taxpayer funds is likely orders of magnitude higher, experts and officials say, soaring well beyond $100 billion.
A rush to release the funds put enormous strain on state workforce agencies, creating a bonanza for individual scam artists and international cybercrime rings. And the federal government was slow to act despite early red flags, according to interviews with more than two dozen fraud experts, senior law enforcement officials and state and federal officials.
[insert expostulation of astonishment and disbelief]
How’d that get past the Editor in Chief?
Well, somebody doesn’t know what “orders of magnitude” means.
Since there’s only one between them.
“orders of magnitude” = “exponentially” = “a lot”
J-school math.
“Decimated” = “completely destroyed”
I’m glad that people are no longer claiming that Emperor Cuomo is wearing clothes, but I find it pretty terrifying that the media was able to, in unison, insist upon it for 9 months, effectively, until the election and then let up right after the inauguration.
“My god! How could this have been allowed to happen? We’re just as surprised as anyone.”
-the media
If those old folks didn’t want to sacrifice themselves for the cause they wouldn’t have been old. This just shows that the media and government are willing to walk hand in hand and let people croak if it suits their political ends.
Some of these are great:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalRoastDay?src=hashtag_click
Whoever runs that account is underpaid
There goes a half hour I’ll never get back.
Completely worth it, though.
Damn, I miss Montana.
I’ll tell you what- I think things might actually be looking up with Gianforte in Helena, despite his portrayal by some as the personification of evil. I can’t wait to hear what the usual suspects have to say about dropping Bullock’s statewide mask mandate.
He’s killing us all, I suspect.
In addition, The Associated Press reported that more than $50 million of the $90 million that the group has raised has gone to firms controlled by its leaders. The news service, citing an analysis from ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG, reported that roughly $27 million paid for advertisements that aired during the 2020 presidential election.
Now do the Clinton Foundation.
Omar will complain that she’s being ignored just because she’s a black muslim woman. I mean she’s doing the exact same thing, but is anyone giving her credict?
Cool tune, Omwc! I really liked the “musical” parts!
If those old folks didn’t want to sacrifice themselves for the cause they wouldn’t have been old. This just shows that the media and government are willing to walk hand in hand and let people croak if it suits their political ends.
I was talking to somebody not long ago, and pointed to the (what should be obvious) fact that we have high numbers compared to “the world” because we are a lot better at keeping old sick people around. How many 90 year olds are there in Africa?
The disease is adept at killing those who are in pretty bad shape, that’s for sure, and modern medicine is good at keeping those folks around.
Re: Count Potato’s ink about Canada, a good number of Canadian snowbirds cancelled plans this year. There are plenty of rental units available in Venice, FL.
Count Potato’s *link*
Still drinking my morning coffee.
I’d visit and stick around but my visage is too basic and I would be coming from the wrong direction. I’d love to live in the U.S.
I did a preliminary run through on my taxes last night.
Looks like I’ll get. Fed and state refund.
It will be “interesting “ to see what new Fed and Cali taxes get added this year to try to finance the socialist programs that the Dems are blessing us with.
Seriously, how can anyone look at Congress, at Joe Biden, even at the DMV and think “I’d rather have these guys take my money and spend it wisely on my behalf that to spend my own money in my interests.”
All of my step-daughters and my wife work for the federal government. I work at a finger’s width. We’re fucked.
It’s become less about the efficient reallocation of money and more about punishing their enemies. When viewed through that lens high taxes on certain people are great even if the money’s put in a giant pile and burned.
The Justice Department has assembled a task force to root out fraud across all 50 states and U.S. territories. Only now is the extent of the theft of taxpayer funds starting to come into focus.
Let me edit that for you:
“The depth and breadth of the endemic incompetence and sloppiness of the administration of these programs is now being brought into laser sharp focus.”
We just had a pretty big quake here. Similar to the big one ten years ago. Reports say that there won’t be any tsunami – I hope that’s true.
No damage where I live. I hope Staff is OK.
Best thoughts sent.
Yikes! Glad you’re OK. Anyone have direct contact info for Straff? Any other Glibs in Japan?
Glad you’re alright!
Good day to make bread and soup.
Everyday is one those, Silly Person…
When you think about it, ice cream is just frozen soup.
Beer is made of grain, flowers, yeast, and water. Beer is salad/bread (depending on which joke you want to run with, bread fits better IMNSHO).
I made soup yesterday.
I’ve never made bread. Unless you count cornbread.
Baked potatoes for us last night (with homemade bacon bits… Never again will we eat the packaged shit, it’s way too easy to make the real stuff)
Pizza dough this morning (basically just bread with some oil to make it behave).
If you go to Costco you should try the Kirkland Bacon Crumbles. It is actual, real bacon and almost as good as frying up some and chopping it yourself. Ten seconds in the microwave and it is good to toss on veggies and potatoes.
If they use the same bacon they sell whole, then I got a pretty good replica last night. Kirkland bacon in the oven at 425 on a cooling rack over a cookie sheet. *chef’s kiss*
HELL YEAH!!!!! I wholeheartedly endorse the Kirkland Bacon Crumbles (I think it was SuthenBoy who turned me on to them). Perfect for throwing a handful onto a burger or into some eggs, or salads, or soups, etc.
Yup, cooking sheet and baking bacon is the superior method for sure. The crumbles rock because they make the bacon addition to almost anything a no brainer. Steamed broccoli, sure. Steamed broccoli and bacon crumbles, hell yes! It’s an excellent way to get your bacon RDA.
I’m gonna have to look for those but I just spotted packaged fried onions at the SuperFresh and that went straight into the cart.
/things I didn’t even know I needed
As I don’t think you have a Costco membership this should work for you.
https://snackathonfoods.com/products/kirkland-signature-bacon-crumbles?variant=32808381448277¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&msclkid=389d3430990b12e3824b54189ed2a463&utm_term=4587780989760060
Now I just need to find 25 dollars worth of other things to add to the cart.
Never mind. I found well over 25 dollars worth.
I braised some short ribs last night but didn’t use them. I think I will be using them tonight for a beef stew with barley.
Judicial Watch: productive target for charitable giving, or no?
Personally, I’d toss more money at IJ before giving some to Judicial Watch, but I’m not super familiar with the ins and outs of JW’s efforts.
My Amazon Smile donations all go to IJ. I’m not very familiar with Judicial Watch.
Thanks. I find myself in the position of cleaning up someone else’s affairs. They gave to a lot of charities, many of which I can immediately spot as … less worthy. I wasn’t sure about JW, though.
Hand me the pliers.
More sugar.
Is this the part where we bring out the gimp?
Silicone Saturday is back and better than ever!
https://archive.li/VNOfb
#11 has a nice portfolio. Good God, I’m pathetic.
That makes you human my friend.
I once was lost but now am found
Kimrey Rhinehardt was one of the many North Carolina voters that decided to leave the GOP following the Capitol riot, describing it as “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“I was shaken by what I witnessed, what I heard and a couple of days after [January 6] I decided that I could no longer align myself with people who are changing the Republican Party to something other than I knew it to be,” Rhinehardt told Newsweek.
While speaking with Newsweek Rhinehardt explained that she first aligned herself with the Republican Party when she was around 11 years old and went on to work as a Capitol Hill staff member for 28 years. Rhinehardt told Newsweek that she officially filed the paperwork to change her party affiliation in the days after the Capitol riots, saying “it took maybe two minutes.”
“And I felt good about it,” she said. “I felt like if I could do nothing else, I will not allow the Republican Party to expect loyalty from me anymore. And for me to go back to the Republican Party, I’m gonna have to see a lot of change, I’m gonna have to feel that others are included, that I’m included, that my voice matters, because right now I don’t really feel like my voice matters.”
Rhinehardt told Newsweek that while she still remains committed to the traditional policies and values of the Republican Party she noted that “it’s just not the party that I know anymore.”
Okay. Now go find a Democrat who is aghast at the lurch to the left. Go talk to one of those blue collar working class Democrats who’s looking on in bafflement, wondering where “his/her” party went. Maybe even find somebody who wonders how the President became a ruler by decree.
Oh, right. Those people don’t exist. Comrade Biden has a mandate. The People love him.
Funny how they had to find a swamp rat in training in order to make this story.
The “find an example, any example, of some trend we’re pushing to advance our agenda” is among my least favorite media ploys.
The news told me they were racists and terrorists. Did you see those windows they broke?!!?!? Government officials were panicking. PANICKING!!!
Sometimes it is just one incident that sours people on a party. As I recall, David Nolan, founder of the Libertarian Party, dumped the GOP when Nixon instituted the “wage and price controls” nonsense. And, gee, ever since we’ve been told by Republicans that libertarians are responsible for every defeat the GOP suffers (such as the nonsense that Trump lost because TOS was allegedly in the bag for Biden).
Were not most of the TOS staff in the bag for Grandma Caligula in 2016? How could a rag that NEVER wanted the Short-Fingered Vulgarian be responsible for his loss in a second election?
such as the nonsense that Trump lost because TOS was allegedly in the bag for Biden
I think you need new friends, because the ones you currently have are evidently brain damaged.
Now do Republicans who changed/cancelled their voter registration because they fear a political purge by the totalitarian left which is in charge.
(such as the nonsense that Trump lost because TOS was allegedly in the bag for Biden).
There’s an endorsement responsible for changing dozens of votes.
DOZENS!
Yes! The Trumpsters on TOS seem to believe that reason swayed enough voters to swing the election to Biden.
Thats not totally inaccurate. In AZ Biden’s margin of victory (≈11k) was much smaller than the number of votes that went to Jorgensen (≈40k). If anything its a better argument the campaign to keep Jill Stein off the ballot had a bigger impact on the outcome.
TOS taking credit for anything is ridiculous.
Am I a tulpa? Neph keeps telling me I’m a tulpa.
You were, but you got betta!
::lifts mug of chai latte in salute::
BTW, this stuff is what I use for my weekend hot caffeinated beverage of choice. You have a favorite brand or vendor?
My favorite Chai is Oregon Chai. https://oregonchai.com/
Right now I’m drinking Big Train Carmel Chai. https://www.amazon.com/Big-Train-Powdered-Instant-Restaurant/dp/B003SRHDMK
Big Train has more flavors. My go to flavor is vanilla.
Not enough sock puppet accounts.
Fuck off Tulpa. We’re all Tulpa now.
Lurk for a while he said… read through some threads first he said… learn the in jokes he said…
You can lead a Tulpa to water…
But you can’t make them read the articles?
The 32-year-old California native has spent his entire NFL career in Baltimore since being selected in the first round of the 2011 draft.
That’s why he went back to California to get robbed. Getting robbed in Baltimore just didn’t have the hometown feel.
But researchers aren’t sure exactly why they were moved.
It was an elaborate prank to fuck with future researchers.
Terrified spectators were pictured running to escape the beasts as the release ceremony descended into chaos.
No one could possibly have foreseen this occuring.
The person behind the account also detailed fighting efforts from an unnamed police department to speak out on racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd. The person also routinely mentioned a fake background to criticize users who were pushing for greater diversity in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
If this person used the account to spout RightThought, the person wouldn’t have lost his job.
Hand me the pliers.
Don’t crush that dwarf.
Doesn’t Louise count?
Only to ten, Mudhead.
“Fulfill your oath.
Convict him.
Disqualify him from using the power of elected office to incite deadly insurrection again.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1360255385060409346
CWAA
Few people give two damns about this and you can sense the desperation. The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments when he’s acquitted again is going to be glorious.
CNN headline screams
NASCAR’s first Arab American female driver to make her debut at Daytona International Speedway
So
fucking
tedious.
Who gives a shit?
Divide and conquer, amigo.
Her mom?
Since when are arab women allowed to drive? Let alone be out in a car w/o a spouse and/or male member of their family ?
Zing!
Damn…I shoulda read the entire article:
“I hope I can pave the way for future female Arab drivers as well.”
Well, have a word or two with your Imam, toots.
That chick is not Arab anything. She’s from the bay area. She’s an American. If we squint, we can pretend she’s a minority, seems to be what they are saying here.
NYTs hatchet job on Slate Star Codex</a< is out (archive link).
It’s actually a reasonably fair article. I wouldn’t call it a “hatchet job”.
Wow! Cade Metz comes across as a petty, vindictive asshole when he keeps inserting himself and his need to dox Alexander into the article.
Yup
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1360292296529502213
National treasure
NATIONAL TREASURE!
Mornin’ folks!
Mornin’ Tundra! This is how I am feeling today
Posted too soon…there lyrics were…ahead of their time
Soon you will be shopping
Without leaving your front fucking door
The cost of living is never going away
Jobs are fading and poverty is on the rise
Nice one!
Here’s where I’m at
Today, in bollocks
The CDC on Wednesday released a study on how to ensure masks offer the best protection possible against coronavirus infections. The evidence showed that wearing a tightly fitted surgical mask, or a cloth mask over a surgical mask, can significantly decrease the spread of COVID-19.
The study found that transmission of the virus can be reduced by up to 96.5 percent if both an infected individual and an uninfected individual wear tightly fitted surgical masks or a cloth-over-surgical mask combination.
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CDC also recommended wearing a mask fitter or brace, which can fit over a cloth mask or disposable one, to make sure no air is seeping in or out around the edges.
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“What the CDC is saying is at minimum, wear a mask. OK? This is what they’re saying. Make sure you wear a mask,” Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said during a recent interview on NBC’s “Today.”
“Then you want it to fit better, so one of the ways you could do it, if you would like to, is put a cloth mask over … That’s all they’re saying,” Fauci added.
Maybe Gorilla Glue it to your face while you’re at it, to get a really good seal.
STFU, you senile quack.
Since we need to layers, staple it and then glue it?
Day 1: (jokingly) Yeah you should wear two masks because it is better
Day 2: (after MSM goes crazy with 2 mask stories) Dudes, I wasn’t serious. I was just goofing around.
Day 3: Two masks are the only way that smart people ever leave the house with. SCIENCE!!!
Did some super scientific study come out after Fauci said that his initial comments about wearing two masks weren’t serious?
Nothing says “This is effective” like requiring 2 of them just to make sure.
States and cities across the country are pushing ahead with lifting coronavirus restrictions, including repealing mask mandates, allowing indoor dining and increasing indoor capacity limits.
But top health officials have suggested, gently, that even though cases, deaths and hospitalizations have been falling, now is not the time to ease up on mitigation efforts.
“These variants are a threat,” Brooks said. “This is not unexpected … but we’re at a place where we can’t let our guard down yet. I really think now is not necessarily the best time for some communities in America to be pulling back these like masking mandates, if you will.”
The variant first found in the United Kingdom is at least 40 percent more infectious than current strains, and is predicted to become the dominant variant in the U.S. as early as next month. A variant first identified in South Africa has also been spreading.
SCIENCE!
When healthy people are quarantined the virus will flow into a more readily spreadable niche, this ain’t rocket surgery. Also missing is the degree of virulence. More dangerous if contracted? Less? The same? Who the fuck knows but that’s important information.
I sure hope those racist bastards don’t start calling it the UK Rona or the Boer Rona!
Everyone knows referring to a disease by where it came from is beyond the pale
Over/Under until a new variant originates in a NY nursing home and the press begins referring to it as the DeSantis Rona?
According to updated guidance, most individuals who have been fully vaccinated for at least two weeks do not need to quarantine after exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 if they have not had any symptoms.
The message there is: If you’ve been vaccinated, we know you are protected from symptomatic infection.
More importantly, the guidance signals that CDC is acknowledging for the first time that the vaccine could also prevent people from spreading the disease.
JUMPING BUTTERBALLS!
I am sure that will be retracted as that might make people think they can break free of their masks and do that socializing thing we have done since we crawled out from under the rocks.
No shit?
Somebody is going to get their research projects mothballed.
A neighbor and I were talking and she definitely is more left of center but not Team Biden and we were basically just being snarky to each other. She made a comment that she would never vote republican again, so I asked why “They have no backbone or balls”. I agreed with her and said maybe you shouldn’t even vote democrat either, they are in the same position. It was good nature joking on our political state. Another lady, I would assume her friend or whatever jumped in “Well the democrats have more women!” I immediately fired off “because that will lead us to sunshine and rainbows and a unicorn in every yard?”
She did not like that. “Are you saying women…blah blah blah” Luckily the neighbor I knew jumped in and said “no he just thinks we need to focus on principles and their actions, not what or what does not hang between their legs”. She is a cool neighbor.
Like that determines if someone is a woman or not…
According to Salma Hayek in Dogma it does. Couldn’t find a clip, so I will quote it “Bethany, you of anyone should know that tits dont make a woman. As you can see, I lack definition.”
“Are you saying women…blah blah blah”
Yes. Can you look at the modern Democrat party and tell me that they don’t?
Goddam that was fun. No traffic. Lots of snow falling. Quietude.
someone whose example should have been followed by every First Lady
In good news today it looks like the recall drive now has the minimum amount of signatures at 1.5 million. They will likely need at least 1.8 as those signatures will be scrutinized in the opposite way as mail in ballots were a few months back. It is not trending towards more than likely that there will be a recall election. Could not happen to a more deserving greaseball.
“Now trending”
They really should shoot for 2 million if they can. You know they are going to be tossing signatures out left and right. “This one did not dot their ‘i’ and cross their ‘t'”
The signers should have put (D) next to their names just to make sure their vote got counted a few times. Granted, after the vetting process I’m sure Newsom’s name wouldn’t have even been on the form.
Yeah, their goal is 1.9 and that should just about get it to a recall vote. God am I going to look forward to voting to oust that smarmy fucker. I’ve disliked the guy since he was mayor, but now it is a white hot burning loathing for him after a year and a half of his shitty governorship.
Trump should run and then cheat like crazy to get more votes than registered voter in the state. That would make me very happy!
I can’t let you go
As Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte lifted the statewide mask mandate Friday, Gallatin Health Officer Matt Kelley reiterated that the county’s face covering rule remains in effect.
“We understand that our epidemiology looks better than it did in November (and) we understand that the vaccine is rolling out,” Kelley said during a press call on Friday. “I want people to also understand there are still thousands of Montanans who remain vulnerable to this virus. They have to go into those public settings, and it’s a very simple act of courtesy that we can have for one another to wear those face coverings.”
Fuck off, you strutting self-aggrandizing martinet.
Now it’s “act of courtesy”. Yeah, this is how this shit never goes away.
A tragic tale
In the 1980s, New Zealand was one of the first countries to radically transform its economy as part of the neoliberal revolution. What’s striking about the story of neoliberalism in New Zealand is that it was a Labour government, first elected in 1984, that brought about this radical transformation of society for the benefit of the wealthy, with prime minister David Lange at the helm.
Labour, traditionally the party of the working class, had campaigned on a promise to strengthen New Zealand’s embattled social democracy in the midst of the economic downturn of the 1970s and early ’80s. Once elected, however, Labour instead set about dismantling New Zealand’s social democracy, with finance minister Roger Douglas arguing that this was the only solution to the era’s economic turbulence. Labour’s stunning reversal was so stark that, in the words of left-wing journalist Bruce Jesson, neoliberalism could be said to have arrived on New Zealand’s shores by way of a “bureaucratic coup.”
Labour initiated a process of deregulating industry, making the tax system more unequal, and legislating to curb the trade union movement. The intent behind these reforms was to create a profit-making state that would facilitate the accumulation of wealth at the very top of society.
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Today, New Zealand is considered one of the easiest places in the world to do business — a euphemism for the fact that the economy is under-regulated, with lax labor protections and comparatively low tax rates. Indeed, New Zealand is an outlier in the OECD, with the lowest top marginal tax rate and almost no taxes on wealth, capital gains, inheritance, or land.
This lost tax income could have been directed to support public services that have been underfunded and neglected for decades. Instead, the upper classes have hoovered up wealth, while working people carried the lion’s share of the tax burden.
The horror.
The HORROR.
Tales from opposite-world.
Almost every sentence there contains an assertion that is obvious bullshit.
radically transform its economy “radically”
radical transformation of society for the benefit of the wealthy anything to back up that claim?
dismantling New Zealand’s social democracy I suspect if I looked, social spending is still tremendous
could be said to have arrived or could not
making the tax system more unequal less steeply progressive is more equal, not less
and so on
Now, look here, you.
We’re hear to tell you how to feel, not to report facts.
Do try and keep up.
@Hayeksplosives, I’m working on a book for a client who was in the Yucca Mountain Project in the 80s. I think it involved blowing things up. I thought you might find that interesting, so if you want, I’ll share the book link with you when it gets e-published.