It’s probably right on time. My day at work was dominated with meetings, and multiple questions as to what time it was in Arizona. Which the correct answer is: exactly the same as it was before.
It has its own time zone. Tired of people in Arizona gloating over this? Occupy your state legislature until they acquiesce your demands, or call in the guard to remove and imprison you. Until then you adjust to me, bitches.
Estebán is sick and tired of daylight savings time.
Yes, legal gun ownership is a thing in Mexico. There are restrictions and exorbitant fees which make things a more complicated then necessary but there are things they will allow—or just ignore the law.
Protestors attempt a coup throw rocks at the Argentine president’s bus. Jeremy Clarkson could not be reached for comment.
With 25% of its population vaccinated, Chile is fourth in the world behind Israel, UAE, and the UK.
Meanwhile in Brazil, the headline includes such connotative language like, “new variant,” “plunge,” “crisis,” “second wave,” “deadly,” “overwhelm”. That’s just the headline…
The Pope oddly enough, is Catholic.
Illegal border crossings up 28% in February. How can they know this number? Is it just a 28% increase in the number that got caught?
Here’s a tune, it’s something for everyone.
Fuck Daylight Saving Time
I haven’t heard anyone discuss the reason. for DST.
Once upon a time when schooling for children became a thing time was adjusted so that children could work more hours on the farm. Children were a big part of family farm labor and most people desperately needed that labor to be able to eat.
Today it is completely pointless.
Because it’s the way we’ve always done things!
At least, that’s the best reason I’ve heard for it recently.
I seem to remember something about kiddies waiting for a school bus in hte dark would get crushed by traffinc not seeing them.
You mean like right now when it’s dark as fuck until almost 8am?
That problem only exists when you change the clock from standard.
DST was for cities not farms. Animals don’t care what the clock says.
But with kids going to school, their availability to do the farm work, and not sitting at school during peak farm work time, does matter.
Or at least it did. Not anymore.
My dog agrees. WALK NOW!
My bowels bark similar orders.
Your bowels wanna go for a walk around the neighbourhood?
Man, it’s amazing what some people can train their bodies to do.
Your bowels wanna go for a walk around the neighbourhood?
Loosens them right up, I tells ya!
Run. Run!
I have heard people say there’s savings to the electrical grid, but failed to answer how there is any savings if people are going to turn the exact same lights and appliances on at the end of their day rather than at the beginning.
I seem to recall a couple years back, when they were first starting to tinker with the start and end dates the same claims were made about saving power. After the changes, they found that there was no power savings, and power utilization went up during the extended times.
It probably did when lighting was a more significant use of electricity. With LED, any savings in reduced evening lighting is more than compensated by increased use of air conditioning since people get home earlier.
This was the justification for shortening standard time/lengthening daylight savings time.
Bush was in office, and it occurred after several weeks of brownouts in CA.
Yes, energy savings was the excuse, and yes, you’re right that having to use lights in the morning is no different than having to use the lights in the evening.
This book, Spring Forward: The Annual Madness Of Daylight Saving Time, was a fun read. It posits an unholy alliance of ‘do-something’ politicians, large merchants/Chambers of Commerce, and a burgeoning leisure time industry for our time-keeping foolishness. Farmers often get blamed but they were the one lobby who consistently fought against the establishment of DST.
In Indiana, they made fun of the farmers for opposing DST. “They think the cows will get confused, Har Har Har!”
I get to drive to work in The Dark again, Frightening, I can’t see at all,
How can they know this number?
Hint: garbage in, garbage out.
Maf & sighence
They follow the SCIENCE (praise be Zer holy name) , DUH.
Excellent song, Señor.
I might have binged out on 80’s music today.
That’s never a bad thing.
We’re not implying she’s a racist
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 87-year-old veteran Democrat, insisted on Tuesday that she is committed to serving out her full term in office even after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had a list of “multiple” potential replacements and would appoint a Black woman to replace her should she retire.
“Give up my seat for one of THEM?
NEVER!
Totally not racist.
You ain’t kidding.
As a woman (albeit one of pallor) I hate seeing this type of thing.
Did I receive my job and promotions just because I’m a woman? Even if I didn’t, will people assume I did?
From the dead thread….
The noxious shop sign used for leftist virtue signaling in downtown Lexington is particularly sinister.
“Immigrants and Refugees Belong Here”
They BELONG. As in they have a RIGHT to be here.
Not “Immigrants and Refugees Welcome” or something of that sort. They BELONG. It’s a rare sight to see a shop without one in downtown.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B291VDynV0p/?igshid=jpb734tx3yf0
In my yuppie neighborhood, there are several “All Are Welcome, Here” signs.
I’m tempted to drive downtown and find the most urine-soaked coked-out bum, ply him with a fifth of tipple, and drop him off at one of these houses, saying, “These are good people, they will give you a warm place to sleep.”
“I notice you didn’t list citizens. Usually when there’s a list, something not on it is excluded. Am I right in saying that citizens are not welcome here?”
I have noticed that lately the words ‘science’ and ‘scientists’ are almost always followed by an unfalsifiable assertion.
The Journal of Irreproducable Results is no longer a parody.
We have infallibility when speaking ex laboratorio.
Coming from (((you))), this is even funnier than it would be on its own.
I give it 5 dreidels.
My dog has infallibility when speaking ex labradorio.
My shit has infallibility when speaking ex lavatorio.
Apologies for linking something else — but these little Stasi wannabes seemed worth mentioning. Hope that pendulum swings back soon… because I don’t see how we can function as a society for very long with this stupidity on going.
Wow. Okay, I stand by my last article then. That’s horrible.
For the pendulum to start swinging back, the people doing this will have to face serious consequences. Wake me up when that happens.
That is, the progressive cult demands that people adhere to ideological slogans, not that they might arrive at honestly and independently, but that their own senses and conscience tells them is utterly wrong.
See, also: egregiously nonsensical mask rules.
“I know it’s plainly ineffectual and makes no sense, but I do it to show how deeply I care for my fellow man.”
Estebán is sick and tired of daylight savings time.
#metoo
The academic said that the number of Mexicans with access to guns is probably higher because many survey respondents “don’t acknowledge having guns even though they have them.”
Smart people.
Firearms regulation in Mexico
Note the history of Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution.
What I find fascinating is that “self-defence” is considered a valid reason for seeking a firearms permit; in Canada, it may be the only reason for which your request for a permit will be automatically denied. We were explicitly warned not to mention the phrases “home defense” or “self defense” by our PAL instructor (himself a government official with a license to carry) on any of our submitted documentation to the RCMP, “unless you want to throw away your application fee and your training fee.”
What about offense?
Possibly a sub-category of “hunting” or “target sports.” WinkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatImean?
Canadians are never worried about offense unless a puck is involved.
On the “Why do you want a gun?” question I checked the box that said “Owning Libs”
Someone would do that? Just respond to a survey and tell lies??
You know, I wouldn’t be happy being limited to a couple of Glock 19s or SIG P226s, but I sure as fuck wouldnt feel under-armed…
What about when the guy you’re shouting at is shooting at you, only from 300 yards and using a .308?
Not possible. .308 is not on the approved list.
It is if you’re in the army.
Fair.
Once upon a time I could easily hit a man-sized target at 300 yards with my K-22 (model 17 S&W)
See this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw
The chances of lil’ ol’ me getting into a protracted gun battle with rifle-armed adversaries at 300 yards, are small enough that I don’t really worry about it.
But speaking of the unspeakable, I do a fair amount of pistol shooting at long range. Versus the typical goon, public or private sector, I put my odds no worse than even.
Meanwhile, in Nuevo Laredo – https://www.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/m3svfx/mexican_cartel_convoy_technical_with_history/
“Yes, legal gun ownership is a thing in Mexico. There are restrictions and exorbitant fees which make things a more complicated then necessary but there are things they will allow—or just ignore the law.”
After the Revolution it must have been impossible to purge all of those weapons that flooded across the border into the hands of peasants and indigenous communities. How did the Zapatistas in the 90’s acquire all of their weapons if the laws are stringent in Mexico?
From their neighbors in Indiana.
Yes, legal gun ownership is a thing in Mexico.
So you are saying that Mexico is the Indiana of North America.
Well there was Operation Fast and Furious, so… kinda?
Florida vs. California
Over the past year, we’ve had an intriguing COVID experiment taking place in two of America’s biggest states: what would happen if one state essentially locked down because of COVID and another state essentially kept things open? All the mainstream media experts have told us that if that happened, the state that didn’t lock down would experience a massive death rate from COVID compared to the state that did lock down.
Only that hasn’t happened at all, and we have the data to prove it.
Inconceivable
Related
Well said.
It should also be noted that Texas took a middle ground between these two (although I’d say they’ve been closer to Florida than California) and has gotten the same results.
Si.
The chat bot says they do NOT come in slim profile. ?
The FBI raided some Free Keene properties and arrested some folks.
Story one
Story two
The Feds claimed kiddie porn led them to the Free Keene folks, but the only charges so far are money laundering, wire fraud, and other financial crimes.
Related to Fed raids and firearms,
Guy makes stainless steel cards printed/etched with the pattern for a lightning link. Some of them are cut to be used as a bottle opener.
The ATF raids him, charges himt with something like 1200 counts of making an illegal machine gun. I’m thinking they’ll try and use the 300 megabuck fine and 12 millenia in prison as a threat to get him to plead out.
https://www.ammoland.com/2021/03/autokeycard-com-seized-by-atf-owner-arrested-for-selling-a-drawing/#axzz6pJFNcq9G
Fuck the ATF.
Err….
/considers C&R license
Praise the brave ATF agents for keeping our streets safe.
Poke the bear enough, and it just might take a bite out of you.
If they were bears, we could legally put them down when they become aggressive.
*sigh*
If only…
#drillthethirdhole
“Riddle told a local news outlet that he chugged wine stolen from a lawmaker’s liquor cabinet during the chaos.”
I hope he gets the chair.
The Journal of Irreproducable Results
Most excellent.
I had my suspicions about Peter Pan and Dumbo, but everyone knows that the Aristocats are racist.
Disney+ has removed several movies, including “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “The Aristocats” and “Swiss Family Robinson” from children’s profiles on its service over negative depictions and stereotypes.
The Walt Disney Company had previously placed content warnings on the films for “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people and cultures” in October. But now, it has removed access to the films by children under 7, according to KTLA sister station WTVO in Rockford, Illinois.
Adults with Disney+ accounts can still access the films with the content warnings, which appear on screen for about 10-12 seconds before the unedited content.
Wait, isn’t Peter Pan gay?
Since he is technically in his 40’s, he’s a pedo.
Doesn’t matter. Gay < BIPOC.
Besides, aren’t cis gay men basically just whites at this point?
Yes, and we get dinged extra for being gender traitors (not my term, but that’s what they really say).
Well which exact gender are you betraying?
What’s the slur they use?
Blacks seen as traitors is Uncle Tom, and other nasty things.
What’s the equivalent?
Uncle Bruce?
He identifies as a woman named Mary Martin.
I thought Peter Pan was into bestiality. You know putting peanut butter on his junk and making Nana lick it off.
Captain Hook. Sounding.
There, fodder for nightmares.
“I had my suspicions about Peter Pan and Dumbo, but everyone knows that the Aristocats are racist.”
I could tell you things about Peter Pan, And the Wizard of Oz – there’s a dirty old man! /Tom Lehrer
As I recall about the Aristocats (and I haven’t watched the movie since I was a kid, so it’s been a decade or two), the Siamese cats have a song about being Siamese that was a bit heavy on the Asian stereotypes.
Because a company is responsible for the misuse of its products.
The AP quoted Psaki commenting on the gun control push and saying President Biden is eager “to advance priorities.”
She added Biden’s priorities include “repealing gun manufacturers’ liability shields.”
On February 24, 2020, Breitbart News reported on a Biden campaign stop in South Carolina wherein he referenced gun manufacturers and said, “I’m going to take you down.”
He made this statement after bringing up the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (2005). The PLCAA is designed to shield gun manufacturers from lawsuits in scenarios where the guns in question were legally made and legally sold.
Now do cars.
And Louisville sluggers.
And airplanes.
Table saws.
Woodchippers!
Alcohol.
Do Statists and fans of Big Government not realize how infuriating stories like this are: Minnesota is getting $550 million in stimulus money for child care. Now comes the hard part: deciding how to spend it.
Great. Let’s fuck up childcare by throwing bales of money out of the govt helicopter. It has to do some good somehow, right?
(in 2020, the Feds threw $9B at childcare, that last spending abomination is throwing $43B)
Nothing left to cut.
With the exception of a few in Congress like Massie and Paul, none of them care about spending us into oblivion because there aren’t any consequences for doing so. The American people love their government showering money on them and will throw them out of office the moment one of their pet programs stopped getting funded.
I am stunned at how few people I talk to seem to understand that someone will need to pay that $1.9T back someday. That taxes will have to be collected to repay that money.
People I thought were smarter than average seem to think that it is free money that the government had been hoarding in their mattress or something. That they might as well dole cash out. What else were they going to do with it.
I’m almost to the point, where I don’t even blame the Congressmen for their actions because they are simply doing what their constituents want.
The Fed can hyperinflate it away.
Yeah, but they don’t want things “fixed” like that.
When the 2008 real estate bubble popped and home prices plummeted, no one liked my comment “Well, the silver lining is that there is a whole lot more ‘affordable housing’ now”.
In their world fixes have no negative consequences. No tradeoffs need to be made. Things just get better.
And incentives. It’s nuts how they pride themselves on being so thoughtful and intelligent but never ever consider that tradeoffs and incentives are a huge factor in decision making.
The glee that many of them seem to take in the idea that they are getting over on other tax payers is unseemly.
When they get more back from Uncle Sugar than they pay in, they are happy. Not ashamed. Not even smart enough to quietly keep their mouths shut and pocket their loot.
I love how the same people squeal in delight at the cost of housing increasing out of one side of their mouth (because it’s THEIR house) and bemoan the increase out of the other side (because it’s where the poors live).
A lot of people truly believe that if they tax the wealthy and corporations more, we can pay down our debt down and increase the funding for social services. When you create a dependent society that doesn’t know the difference between money and wealth, you get stupid statements like, “If the wealthy paid their fair share, we wouldn’t be in this problem.”
Now the cuntes are on a “wealth tax” kick.
The super-wealthy will always find a way out, so the burden will end up being borne by the dwindling middle class. Same as it ever was.
Sorry, kids!
AMT….
It should be noted that the income tax itself was started as a tax on the wealthy.
And in the glorious 50s the burden was spread most broadly across the population, it is now much more like it was in the early days (skewed way up the income distro).
I don’t understand these charges.
A man has died after suffering second and third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body – days after Rochester Police say he was intentionally set on fire by two teenage boys.
Investigators said the man, whose name has not been released, was sitting in a chair in his apartment on Lyell Avenue near Murray Street on Friday. According to officers, the two teenagers – ages 14 and 16 – sprayed the man with an ignitable fluid, then set him on fire.
After spending four days in the URMC Burn Trauma Unit, police said the man has died.
Both teenagers were charged with first-degree assault. The 16-year-old is charged second-degree attempted arson, while the 14-year-old was charged with second-degree arson.
The only thing I can figure is that they are afraid of a jury acquittal if they charge even manslaughter. They really ought to charge the younger perp with voluntary manslaughter (minimum) and the older one with one of the various degreees of murder.
There’s an update to the story — the charges have been upgraded to second-degree murder. One of the little shits will be prosecuted as an adolescent and the other as a juvenile. And if they’re acquitted, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the man’s friends found them and turned them into grease spots.
Older woman arrested at the Bank of America in Texas for not wearing mask.
a) Private businesses can require masks above and beyond the laws in the Republic (not state, ha) — if she wants to bank there, she should wear a mask.
b) Texas “law” supersedes the business’s mask mandates and BoA has no right to force customers to wear masks.
c) Something something bake that cake.
As far as I can tell, she was arrested for trespass after refusing to leave when asked by the business.
It’s the same as posted no-gun signs in VA businesses. The signs don’t have force of law. All the business can do is ask you to leave if they you carrying and then you can be arrested for criminal trespass if you refuse to vacate.
Video looks as if she was leaving and then was brought down by the officer. Whatever you do, don’t read the comments in any YouTube video of the interaction.
That happened just down the road from me. And while I champion freedom of association, and I feel that public accommodation laws are evil, I think making special loopholes in them for certain sorts of discrimination is even worse.
I’m looking for an illustration someone here did of a coat of arms type drawing with two giraffes and a hyena. I’d like to use your drawing as an illustration for a story I’m writing. If this is yours, or you recall who posted it, please reply in comments or email me at my handle at glibs dot com.
I think it was Hyperbole. Ask him next time you see him around.
That’s Lt. Col. Anti-freedom of Speech A-hole, to you, peasant.
Recent events have made the need for accountability more pressing than ever. Should anyone be surprised that viewers of right-wing media are radicalized when media personalities themselves promote radical ideas based on lies?
…
But while the rioters are being held accountable through the criminal justice system—and Congress at least had a chance to hold the former president accountable through the impeachment process—how can Americans hold the right-wing media responsible for its role in the attack? The mob that attacked the Capitol was born of hatred fomented by the right-wing media. These insurrectionists were raised for years on a steady diet of disinformation and half-truths, which produced the fertile fields for radicalization.
…
The First Amendment gravely limits the available tools to seek accountability for the right-wing media. Policymakers cannot, after all, tell media organizations what to say. Except in the most extreme situations, which are unlikely ever to arise, prosecutors also cannot accuse them of incitement.
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Civil consequences, rather than governmental restrictions on First Amendment rights, could be a meaningful way to take what are fundamentally money-making ventures and demand truth from them, instill rigor in their reporting, and uphold accountability. Like a tabloid being sued and paying severe penalties, media companies and right-wing media personalities will claim that what’s at stake is freedom of speech. But defamation is not covered by the First Amendment, so this is, by definition, not true. And the generous standards in defamation law for purposes of protecting the press offer a true safe haven for good-faith actors even when they err. Putting companies in fear of the real costs in civil damages for slander, libel, and false claims that can cumulatively incite violence and that can individually harm actual human beings should have a restraining effect on their behavior.
All the main stream news agencies “independently verified” a phone call transcript that was completely made up, but they’re the only ones that should be allowed to exist. This truly is bizarro world.
If you read Greenwald today, he eviscerated that bullshit claim.
“Independently verified” = calling the same “anonymous” source and having him tell the same bullshit line he told to the first journalist.
“radical ideas based on lies?”
Examples of these lies?
Russian collusion.
Should anyone be surprised that viewers of right-wing media are radicalized when media personalities themselves promote radical ideas based on lies?
But it’s not the right-wing media personalities doing most of the lying.
Your side lies, my side fortifies.
But while the rioters are being held accountable through the criminal justice system
Being persecuted isn’t really the same thing as being held accountable.
Now do Russiagate.
That was 4+ YEARS of CONSTANT misinformation and lies.
“Everybody asks for money and they celebrate getting it, and nobody knows how it’s going to be spent,” said Cindy Lehnhoff, director of the National Child Care Association (NCCA). “That’s a huge frustration I have as an advocate.”
“Where’s my cut?”
*Yawn*
“They are arguing for a radically less stable and less consensus-driven system of government,” McConnell said. “Forget about enduring laws with broad support. Nothing in federal law would ever be settled. Does anyone really believe the American people were voting for an entirely new system of government by electing Joe Biden to the White House and a 50-50 Senate? This is 50-50 Senate. There was no mandate to completely transform America by the American people on November 3.” …
“So, let me say this very clearly for all 99 of my colleagues: Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like,” McConnell said. “None of us have served one minute in a Senate that was completely drained of comity and consent. This is an institution that requires unanimous consent to turn the lights on before noon.” …
“I want our colleagues to imagine a world where every single task, every one of them, requires a physical quorum — which by the way, the Vice President does not count in determining a quorum,” McConnell continued. “Everything that Democratic Senates did to Presidents Bush and Trump… everything the Republican Senate did to President Obama… would be child’s play compared to the disaster that Democrats would create for their own priorities if they break the Senate. So this is not a trade-off between trampling etiquette but then getting to quickly transform the country. That’s a false choice.” …
“Touching the hot stove again would yield the same result. But even more dramatic,” McConnell said. “As soon as Republicans wound up back in the saddle, we wouldn’t just erase every liberal change that hurt the country. We’d strengthen America with all kinds of conservative policies with zero—zero—input from the other side.”
“I want our colleagues to imagine a world where every single task, every one of them, requires a physical quorum — which by the way, the Vice President does not count in determining a quorum,” McConnell continued.
Good.
The filibuster should still exist, but it should be a real person speaking like Jefferson Smith going on and on with Jean Arthur watching him from the gallery.
Good. I hope they follow through on that threat if the Democrats abandon the consensus-building mechanisms of the Senate.
I assume that all of you hipsters are familiar with South by Southwest (SXSW), a big festival for film, music and tech industries. This year’s event is all virtual and even more woke than previous years, with a keynote by Stacey Abrams being a highly touted event.
Get online, because you won’t want to miss the exciting session, “Restoring American Democracy After An Insurrection.”
https://online.sxsw.com/event/sxsw-online/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfMzYxODIx
“For the People Act”
That’s the biggest red flag I’ve ever seen. The cuddlier it sounds the worse it is.
Oh, yeah. I guess that they could have really gone over the top and named it in honor of Brian Sicknick.
Restoring – did something disappear?
American Democracy – a republic, not a democracy
After an Insurrection – if it was an insurrection there would have been a lot more guns. Or at least one gun.
I’m almost to the point, where I don’t even blame the Congressmen for their actions because they are simply doing what their constituents want.
Survey Shows Paul Likes Getting Peter’s Money to Spend.
Wife just tested positive for Covid 19.
Minor symptoms at this point.
My condolences.
I hope she gets well soon.
Sinus congestion and fatigue. No other symptoms.
The only reason she tested was that two of her friends tested positive in the last couple of days. Both were limited to sinus congestion and fatigue.
Sounds like someone is trying to get out of mandatory Tuesday Nookie Night!
Tell her she still has to do her shift at the gloryhole. No malingering.
*Seriously, I hope she gets better soon and that you don’t catch it.
Let us know how you test. This shit is spread weirdly: my nephew spent a week in hospital with it, yet neither his wife or kids came down with it. Folks who followed all the directions – masking, distancing, hand washing – got it but those they lived with didn’t.
I know a dude who got it and had a helluva time fighting it. He’s young (late 30’s), tough, fit – the whole thing. His doc was puzzled and had him tested for vitamin D. It barely registered.
Not saying that’s why, but it keeps showing up in studies and anecdotes.
Take your D3+K2 kids. And get your asses outside!
D3, yes. K2, no.
I’ve already got enough problems with blood clots (micro-clotting has created three thumb-sized necrotic tissue areas in the white matter of my brain-stem, plus a puzzled neurologist who can’t understand why I’m not dead yet, but he’s young, so I’ve simply told him “Patience, my time will come soon enough.”).
The doctor’s office said that I did not need to test if I did not show symptoms.
We’ve been taking zinc and multivitamins (with D3) since last summer.
Here are some other things:
Zelenko protocol
So yes. Zinc, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D already.
Probably why her symptoms are quite mild right now.
And a bottle of Cinchona Officinalis Bark Herbal Supplement (quinine) arrives from Amazon on Thursday.
Per the label, Cinchona Officinalis Bark is for leg cramps and improved digestion.
Just sayin.
I think I’d rather pound back numerous Gin & Tonics.
What kind of test? PCR? What was the Ct value? Make them tell you. She might just have the sniffles and or what we used to call a cold. We have all had a million of them. When I got the sniffles a few weeks ago I left work and stayed home a day because they have all fucked our heads up.
whatever test takes 30 minutes to get an answer for at the doctor’s office.
Who knows bro. I don’t know what that one would be. This shit, including testing, is so off the charts fucked all you have to do is pay attention to how you feel. I’m trusting your missus has nothing just like the vast majority of people who tested positive in this nation had.
Wishing her a quick and easy recovery.
I bet you didn’t think committing genocide would be so easy? What?
She will be fine. Stay positive.
I hope she recovers quickly and that you manage to dodge it.
⬆ this
echo!
Sorry, kinnath.
If it’s any consolation, my symptoms were mild (milder than previous flus I’ve had).
Hope the symptoms stay minor for her, and nonexistent for you.
“Restore the balance”, “leftist domination”. “Tomayto”, “tomahto”.
“They put so many right-wing, really, some of the people who they put on the bench were people, I hate to use all these bad words, but they’re just horrible,” the New York Democrat continued. “They had no understanding of walking in the other person’s shoes. They were narrow, right-wing, often young people.”
“So we have to restore the balance to the bench, and that’s of great urgency. And we will,” the Senate’s top Democrat said.
And by “balance” he means completely tilted in his favor.
We knew nothing then, and we apparently know even less now
Tuesday marked one year since President Donald Trump announced his administration’s “15 days to slow the spread” campaign, asking Americans to stay home for about two weeks in an effort to contain the coronavirus.
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A look back at the first coronavirus guidelines issued by the federal government demonstrates just how little was known at the time about the virus that has sickened almost 30 million Americans and killed at least 535,000 in the U.S.
The two largest failings of the guidance were that it didn’t acknowledge that people without symptoms can spread the virus and didn’t say anything about wearing masks, former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen said. Instead, that early guidance focused mostly on urging people who feel sick to stay home and for everyone to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people.
“There was so much we didn’t know about this disease at the time,” Wen said. “There were two key elements in our scientific knowledge that we didn’t fully understand. One was the degree of asymptomatic transmission, and two was the aerosols, how this is not just transmitted through people sneezing and coughing.”
Once we locked down the healthy people and instituted mandatory mask-wearing, we completely stopped the virus in its tracks.
SCIENCE!
Good luck, Mrs Kinnath!
thanks
Likewise
And Mr. Gorsky.
On the Brazilian article, I’m not surprised. The media there saw how effective hammering the fear worked against OMB, and they hate Bolsanaro just as much if not more. The spousal unit is sure that Lula is going to run again now that he’s out of prison.
I guess there goes my escape plan.
Brazil shouldn’t have been an escape plan to begin with.
I’d say it’s not ideal, but there are benefits to already speaking the language, being familiar with the location and having a family/support system already there. Besides, nothing beats relaxing on the beach with a cold Skol with nothing to worry about, even while the rest of the world burns down.
Wen, who is also an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, noted it wasn’t just politicians, but also scientists, who didn’t understand how to fight the virus. It wasn’t until early April that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization acknowledged that wearing a mask could help protect people, she said.
And the numbers (infections, hospitalizations, deaths) all immediately FELL OFF A CLIFF. We wuz SAVED.
How can they spout egregious falsehoods like this and not just burst into flames?
Because you haven’t lit them on fire?
Sick Burn!
Built a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Funny in an “I can’t believe I laughed at that” sense.
St. Fauci: “masks don’t help. Don’t bother wearing them”
St. Fauci: “Masks do help. I completely lied about their effectiveness because I didn’t want you rubes wasting them on yourselves”
Fauci is on record admitting that he has lied to the public. But this time, for sure, he will pull out when he cums so put the tip back in your mouth. Personally, I think the real lie he told was the second statement, that masks are effective. Really, though, the real takeaway is that we have been lied to from the very beginning.
If you’re on your MD soapbox, you shouldn’t say stupid shit like “fight” the virus.
wearing a mask could help protect people
Assumes facts still not in evidence, despite a giant one-year experiment on hundreds of millions of people. At some point, absence of evidence actually does become evidence of absence.
And I don’t even have to read the article to know what every side is going to say here.
Activist gays want to the change the church to make it accommodate them, Pope says “nuh uh”, activist priests go ahead anyway, chaos ensues. Rinse, repeat.
Maybe we’ll get another schism this time.
Let’s not forget the step where the Pope makes a of “compassionate and pastoral” remark which muddies the waters and makes things even more confused.
I don’t find it that muddy, but I’m not a narcissist who demands that everyone celebrate me.
The obvious solution (to me) is start your own damn church and stop trying to destroy theirs. ?♂️
Starting your own church is hard, unlike starting your own pillow company.
“If you don’t like our Pope, we have another one.”
Yes, yes we do. Avignon is quite nice this time of year.
I thought commie pope was the only and only pope.
True, but if they ever have to auction off a used Pope, they have Benedict, the Pope Emeritus.
Maybe we’ll get another schism this time.
*Waits impatiently for the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ and A Lotta’ Gay Saints*
The Anglicans already exist.
*standing ovation*
Is that another one of them racists?
Oh, very nice.
Being baptized Episcopal relieves all need to explain my apostasy.
My wife has been a Branch Covidian from the very beginning. The first big breakout happened in her hometown in Korea and since then she has been convinced we were all going to die from it.
The good news is that dying of the Rona is no longer her biggest fear.
The bad news, the new bogeyman is that the vaccine will kill her. A couple of her friends have gotten the vaccine and have gotten “really sick” after the shot. So now she is having second thoughts about the shot.
I can’t win.
Sorry, dude.
My wife can’t understand why I want to be at the end of the vaccine line. Her willingness to believe the powers scares me sometimes.
I don’t even want to be on line.
*pulls Sean’s ethernet cable out of wall*
I’d like to get an airplane at some point. And my guess is that they will make it a PITA for those who aren’t.
I expect so. And since travel is part of my life, I’ll be exploring every possible alternative.
The good news is that the “Travel Passport” is running afoul of the wokesters because of “vaccine access inequality”.
Here’s hoping they all DIAF.
We’re ahead of that here in Cleveland:
City of Cleveland’s Johnson & Johnson Vaccines All Went to Metro for Homeless Population
I believe my dad and me are the last two in the family that haven’t gotten the vaccine.
I’m sure they will, and in my case this is a good thing. I hate flying, and having an additional excuse not to do so is a bonus (no, I will not be getting vaccinated despite checking enough boxes to jump to the front of the line. Wish I could sell my vaccine credits like indulgences.)
My wife took hers Sunday morning, was unconscious 10 seconds later and in observation for an hour. Yay!, I can’t wait to do that!
Its amazing how many things that start with “My wife” end with “I can’t win”.
I won’t flaunt my SP privilege.
Personally, I think the real lie he told was the second statement, that masks are effective.
My recollection is that Foochy & Co said they didn’t want the plebs wasting those invaluable totally germ-impermeable masks on themselves when the noble pros needed them. I think he was consistent in his lie that they actually have some sort of protective effect.
It has been studied for decades, and the universal doctrine based on that was that mask wearing by the public doesn’t help in a pandemic.
And that turned on a dime, with absolutely no new scientific evidence, not even an observational study. Fauci’s first statement: “Don’t waste our mask supply doing something pointless when we are looking at a shortage”, was the correct one. His second statement” Wear a mask or everyone will die” was the lie, intended to feed the panic for a variety of reasons.
Hey, look – they believed me the first time; let’s test their credulity by telling them the complete opposite from the same goddam person!
Watching 1957 Perry Mason episodes. Werner Klemperer shows up a guest star with a different fake german accent than the one he’s famous for and I can’t stop laughing.
*checks internet*
Apparently he played three different characters in that series.
The one with the washed up American actor and the fake NAZI gold? That’s a good one.
No, this one is the unexpected east german relative of a rancher’s wife. But now his character is dead. But he has at least two more appearances as other characters to go, so one of those might be.
I envy Klemperer and Banner getting their whacks in.
My favorite Scorpions song on finger-style acoustic guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riPUbF6FwH0
Classical guitar, not acoustic guitar. /pedant
I hope to be able to do that some day.
Growing my nails long like that would be annoying as hell, though.
I’m sure they can make a variety of implements to impersonate long nails.
six fucking months. They don’t break off every time I do any kind of physical task (like wood working projects).
Check this out:
link fail 😉
WP told me to slow down!!
Check this out:
Canon
Nice. Very relaxing.
They needn’t be that long.
You don’t actually pluck the string with your nail. You glide the ramp of your nail along the string. Just slightly longer than your finger is sufficient.
I’ve tried, but I can’t grow mine very long. I’ve never been able to keep nails long enough to use them for more than a couple weeks before they break.
During baseball season I can’t grow them long enough at all. As soon as the nails get longer than my finger they break.
Justin Johnson plays “Hurt”
Also good.
my favorite nobody finger-style dude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERTTXMJB8EE
all of his tunes are so much fun: all the guitar chording, riffs, fills, turnarounds . . . allthewhile walking the melody
Rain Song is so lovely anyway, but this guy’s is pretty sweet.
It’s after 6pm and it’s still daylight. Fuck off, DST!!!
The Equatorial day/night cycle is ideal for me. Why does it have to be so hot there?
You can live in the mountains.
A relative of mine and her husband lived in Cuenca, Ecuador for a while. It’s a bit south of the Equator. The weather is spring-like year round because of the altitude.
Yeah, anything above the tropical (or marine) inversion layer is quite pleasant. Last time I visited the Big Island, we spent a few days in and around Volcano Village, which is quite definitely above that layer. Very comfortable! They even had a winery there that suffered the occasional frosts around Christmastime. (And used a jackhammer when they wanted to plant new vines.)
Although I should note, that far above sea level, you’re gonna have to deal with more UV than you might be comfortable with.
The libertarian paradise of Somalia is on the equator too.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-on-the-equator.html
Probably pretty hot there though.
Because it gets too much sun.
YES! More Daylight after work means more playtime,
I just got a few new discs and tried them out today. I’m still trying to get the muscle memory right and royally screwed up a ton of my tee shots (front 9 is wooded with more than a few tunnel shots), but had fun playing to a +6 after 9 holes. If I can get control of my tee shots, I can shave 4 or 5 off of that, easy.
Tee shots ah yes, trees, my Friend, I’m getting good at my Flex shot, Being Lefty, and having no forearm game, I need it.
If you can shoot +6 after 9, your doing fine, keep going,
/Shot +1 for 18 Sunday,
My forehand is sad, too. As a fellow southpaw, I’ve noticed that many of the courses are designed to be forehand heavy for us. I’m just happy if the damned thing flies straight and doesn’t flutter when I throw forehand. Distance is no object.
I don’t have a ton of distance, but I’m a pretty versatile scrambler, Annies, rollers, some Grenade action, so I have fun,
/Don’t Nice me Bro…..
Yusef, if you don’t live north of the artic circle, DST is way more unattractive. I give credit to Indiana for being one the only states to ban that shit, right after I left, for a while.
I don’t understand the distance that I see the pros get. There’s something in my mechanics that is way off if I can only take a distance driver 265 and they can go 400+ with ease. Not that I expect to match their power day one, but I’d expect to get within 100 feet of their throws when I get a good one off.
Fuck DST, Tulpa! Go fuck off!
I like the Sun, Fuck You,
Man, we sure are having an outbreak of uppity Tulpi round here.
You realize I’m not a Tulpa?
You realize we’re ALL Tulpa, Yusef?
Exactly what Tulpa would say, Tulpa.
I can’t keep up with all these Yusef’s either.
Then we are Tulpae?
“Then we are Tulpae?”
All of the time, but especially after cheering on the travesty of DST.
I’m not against it if we leave it the same the entire year.
I liked the AZ no change thing Hype don’t get me wrong,
Interesting article from 2019 that implicitly makes the same case I have for a while. Socialism is basically indistinguishable from the complaints of incels, if you simply replace sex and affection with wealth. It’s the same doctrine, in principle. And socialists who make snide incel comments are demonstrably hypocrites.
What? No hipster juice reviews? What is this?
Tuesday.
Also, known as the 2nd day of shit fuck DST.
The new Shiner Brewers Pride is pretty decent. 9%, “bock” aged in Balcones whiskey barrels
I came thisclose to picking a 6 pack of it up this evening. I opted for the Texas beer from Independence instead.
It’s sweet with a strong malt backbone. It reminds me of ayinger celebrator, but not quite. The shiner is sweeter, stronger and doesn’t have that almost soy-sauce like after taste. It’s a solid outing from a usually bland brewer if you like malt forward big beers.
” but there are things they will allow—or just ignore the law.”
Yeah, sort of like that. 2nd time I was in Brazil, we took a trip to the birthplace of my wife, which is sort of the wild wild west of Brazil. I mean one of them. The next morning, my wife’s niece drove us out to her farm in the countryside and one of the first things I saw when we pulled up in front of her house, was her neighbor sitting on his porch cleaning his rifle. Now it is nearly impossible here for a private citizen to own a gun. What I’m trying to say is, the law there gets ignored, a LOT.
Poor XX. Stuck in Denver. Sitting on an immobilized airport bus while the future dick-sucker-in-chief flew in to spew her bullshit.
That’s not an acceptable substitute for “mistress.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/10/ap-style-guide-calling-women-mistress-is-sexist-instead-use-lover-or-companion/#
(PS – supposedly there’s no male equivalent of “mistress,” but “gigolo” seems to come closest)
Toyboy?
Or, we could make “mastress” a thing.
That’s BoyToy, just for Women……
Lost me at “style guide”.
Paramour?
“Fuckbuddy” seems to be de rigueur amongst the youngsters I’m exposed to. Sadly.
At least the new airport is slightly better than the old POS.
The Pope oddly enough, is Catholic.
FTA:
It sounds like a segment of the German church is not Catholic. Last time a bunch of German churchgoers had a beef with the Catholic church they left and formed their own churches. Perhaps this new bunch should follow their example.
Meanwhile:
Residents of Minneapolis’ ‘no-go zone’ speak out
I actually feel quite sorry for these people. “George Floyd Square”, my ass.
What’s the Minnesota National Guard doing? Pounding their puds?
How about telling the governor that there’s been reports of people going around the Zone maskless.
Guarding the city hall and courthouse.
Taxpayers stuck in the Zone can fuck right off.
Oh, and about the fences at the capitol?
Going nowhere.
*Leafs through pages of history book*
The elites or revolutionaries unleash hordes of mad dogs on the public to help dissolve society and its institutions but wall themselves off from them because…well, they are mad dogs. Of course after this is all over those mad dogs will be put down.
If history is any guide the next step is to instigate a civil war. How that will go, who knows?
Not well for anyone.
Yeah, they probably didn’t count on the neighborhood being taken over by Communist agitators before signing the mortgage.
Time to show up on the politician’s doorsteps and remind them what their job actually is.
Tar and feathers may help.
The FBI will bring you in forever. <—I wish this were an actual joke?
For the day after the Ides of March:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/60A8817.jpg
Same lass as yesterday. And yeah, that’s one of the lipstick colours she brought to the session.
Did she sign the forms specifying that she consents to be ogled by horny libertarians?
Believe it or not, yes.
(My legal training, while not culminating in either a degree or employment as a lawyer or law-thing, was not completely wasted on me. There’s no such thing as an iron-clad Model Release, but mine’s close . . . )
Colors.
Yankee splitter! Kulak! WRECKER!
Daylight savings time?
Time is an illusion.
At least that seems to be the Post Office’s latest motto.
Latest?
It’s been Canada Post’s motto since, well, the moment they were established by an Act of Parliament.
So is savings these days.
The thing I know is the thing I love.
I’m pretty sure it and variants is the official Glib handgun. May not be be everyone’s first or favorite, but I think it’s the top dog in ownership, definitely in familiarity.
Ya, I have yet to buy an actual FS but the variant I have is pretty much the same. I mean if I actually owned a gun it would be like that.
Could be.
SW586/686 has an unusual following here.
What about 1911?
If you say all Glocks are really the same gun, that’s probably in the running.
Is it just me, or is a 92 a huge thing just to crank out some 9mm?
All 1911 variants in our household.
It has a really fat grip from the factory, but it’s not at all heavy between the aluminum frame and the open-topped slide.
Of course, I’m not shy about weight.
My SW686 is 44 ounces.
Meh, just could be your small hands Don.
My hands fit me at 6-2. My son’s are considerably smaller even though he’s much heavier-framed than I am, usually carries 30 pounds more meat than I do.
Dad’s hands are monstrous. You could toss my wedding band through his from across the room.
I am a 92 hater, through and through; from the reasoning behind it (lowering standards to accommodate lady soldiers), to the GIGANTIC size used to propel such a wee round, to the clunky aesthetics, I can’t stand the things.
How in the wide world of sports is the 92 FS GIGANTIC?
Maybe they’ve tried the Desert Eagle 92.
You speak of what I don’t know. I might need to know this but who can afford one of those. DDG’s……….Dood, those look
as bigthe same as a Berreta. Is it the caliber everyone is bitching about? Ya ok I get that.I was being a bit facetious.
And are you sure going to 9mm was to accommodate the ladies, or was that the round that NATO chose? So we all complied so we could shoot all the bad guys and share ammo? That was the shit I was sold in that era. I know of one glib who would know.
I know at least three of us shoot CZ75 variants regularly.
I have shot.?
I’m lusting after a Compact 92 Carry customized by Langdon.
Hate the M9, it was always uncomfortable in my hand. Fortunately, I carried a 1911 in Iraq.
Oh lord. *deletes rest of comment*
So I’m getting these reports about a former Gates Foundation vaccine specialist who’s calling for a stop to the vaccination program, especially the mRNA versions.
His concerns revolve around the mRNA vaccines being very specific and incapable of handling many mutations. As he puts it, the part of the immune system that the mRNA vaccines target is the last line of defense. When actually infected, the first line of defense gets trained for a broader spectrum of variants. However, by training the last line, the first line never learns how to cope with COVID and when the virus mutates only slightly, everyone is back to square one.
There’s some other stuff about mutation pressures and vaccines that I haven’t wrapped my head around yet.
Anyone else read this?
My understanding is that the critique regarding the limitations has some validity: it’s not a panacea. But the rest of the noise about incapacitating your immune system is pure drivel (thanks, Fox News). As to mutation, it’s the same as most vaccines: YMMV; the vaccines out there have had good success against the modest variants we’ve already seen, but at least one is nearly useless (in very, very, very early analysis) against the widest-ranging variant out there . . . yeah: but that’s the deal with a vaccine.
The correct view of mRNA vaccines is that they get the job done without putting you at hardly any risk. The question of whether that tiny risk is actually more or less than what you believe your odds are with the virus afoot remains a question only you can answer.
As for long-term risks, one never knows: we improvise when the dragon is at the gate. This is a somewhat novel technology for a somewhat novel disease. But I don’t think there are any side-effects or complications in the history of vaccines that didn’t fairly well make themselves known within a few months of use. This vaccine could be dangerous in new and lethal ways, but we would almost certainly seen it already.
To be fair, he’s not addressing the experimental nature of the vaccine technology, just the way it’s being used.
I have my own concerns about the mRNA vaccines and the possible long term side effects. And I’ve been a proponent of therapeutics for the otherwise healthy.
Unfortunately, unless side effects start showing up shortly, I think we’re going to get mandatory vaccination orders from the government for everyone.