Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
Bill introduced to repeal Biden’s war powers.
Bill passed to reform policing.
House Republicans unveil bill to prevent any future financial transaction tax on trading.
Unaccompanied minors illegally crossing border on pace to “shatter” records.
Covid deaths 10 times higher in countries where 50% or more of the population is overweight.
CA city bans new gas stations.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Bill introduced to repeal Biden’s war powers.”
They’ll still do more wars anyway.
FTFY.
“defensive kinetic military actions”
All you need to see to know you can’t trust the media cuntes, is what they do to pretend these fucking democrats are not warmongering globalist shitheads.
Sure.
But if we can be rid of the abysmal AUMF(s), that’s a good thing.
While good..part of Bidens reasoning was under UN law “authorized” him to strike.
One thing at a time.
Biden – reasoning? Oh, you mean the justification his handlers gave him to mouth.
JI yeah, maybe not the best word. Yes
“There was bipartisan support against the bill and only partisan Democrat support for it. The vote was initially passed with 219 Democrat votes and 1 Republican vote with 210 Republicans opposing it and 2 Democrats opposing it.”
That doesn’t sound very “bipartisan”.
“However, the lone Republican that voted for it, Rep. Lance Gooden (TX), announced that he accidentally voted for the bill and that he changed his official record to vote against the bill.”
“bipartisan support against”
Another sub-100 IQ journalist writing like shit.
Good morning! Anyone else wake up and step into a giant pile of shit?
I’m about to wander over to my office… does that count?
Yes. I mean, if yours is like mine.
Yup. Giant pile of shit confirmed. I’m so glad my boss is taking off Mon. and Tue. so I get an even bigger pile next week.
That was it… that was my big pile of shit. How’d you know?
You really shouldn’t be using your office as a latrine.
Another step away from winter, it’s a great, I say, great day! OTOH I don’t have to go to work just yet.
I really like this global climate change crisis.
We’re dealing with another cold snap here, back down in the 20’s until next week at the earliest. But then we may hit the 60’s again. Great Lakes Brewing is opening up their restaurant again on March 17th (for some reason…) with reservations required and going online here in about 90 minutes. A quick search hasn’t shown that the other local breweries are planning anything special for the day yet.
And Great Lakes is right by a large selection of other bars and restaurants…
But you know I love Great Lakes.
Just pulled up the reservation page… and noped the hell out. They want $35 per person (minimum of two) for the Irish Breakfast (minimum 20% gratuity already added). What you get for that is:
The lunch and dinner specials are all under $20 each.
*sighs* Dang.
Free reservations here, Neph. Did you get a Forum email?
Swiss:
There’s too many other options right around that area at much more affordable breakfast prices (even in the expensive places, you can get a meal for $15) and that’s without holiday specials. I do plan on stopping in to attempt to grab a pint at the minimum. If I can’t get in there, there’s about a dozen other breweries in walking distance from there.
4×20:
Yep, and replied in the forum.
Mid-80s here. Fuck.
It’s almost warm. Won’t be too much longer and you’ll be able to come out of hibernation.
Same here. Low 20’s. Where’s that fucking groundhog.
it’s supposed to hit 60 in the next few days.
Grilling weather. Woohoo!
Yeah, next Thursday. Hmph.
Your mayor killed him.
It hit 58° here at the beach just yesterday. I had the heater off and all the windows open. Right now, it’s 28° and I want to move back to Florida.
It didn’t feel warm yesterday because I was indoors all day and got the full blast of windy Canada air in my 6th floor home office.
Sounds like every second or third day, lately. Sorry for your troubles.
The cat threw up on the train table.
Sorry to hear; that’s a common event around here. They each had/have their own special area to which they like feel entitled to vomit or cough up hairballs regardless of the objects currently occupying said space. The worst was Morgana Jones (our elderly lady cat), she would, when upset about something, climb onto my chest when I was prone and promptly pee on me.
Hah, I had one of those. she got out and was promptly pan-caked on the street. She was a sweet cat but pissy.
Named after the kissing lady?
Yikes, that’s got to be a pain to clean.
Almost literally. Production has a problem where large amounts of unknown goop are forming in the mixes and clogging up the filters. Guess who gets to scrape it out, rinse it with various solvents, and try to determine what it is?
The goop is disgusting and smells like a lesbian locker room.
When you figure it out, will you let us know? Now I’m curious at what horrible thing is happening.
That guy that retired from the Budweiser plant that used to piss/jerk off in the vats and lost his retirement when he told people he had done that, now works at OMWC’s place?
You too? ERT encountered “pink slime” under a plater, ans they’re refusing to clean it up until we tell them what it is.
I have $20 on “algae.”
Algae would not grow in this environment. I’m thinking some polymerization of one of our starting materials, with a nice dose of amine catalyst to give it that delicate bouquet.
Yeast infection?
UTI?
Get this cheese to sickbay?
Trichomoniasis
I used to help a buddy out with apartment maintenance. There was a rule that, in a unit with the power off, you never open the fridge until it was moved outside (kinda like the movie “backdraft” and “DONT OPEN THAT DOOR!”)
I’m not sure if there’s a particular bacteria that likes to munch on decaying pork, and exhausts ammonia or amine in the process, but I stupidly opened a door once, and the rush of ammonia-esque funk had both of us running to the door, on the verge of heaving.
As I recall the odor threshold for ammonia is in the ppb range, so a little goes a really long way.
That needs to be distilled into a cologne. “For the man that wants what he will never have!” Don’t go chasing Lesbians.
smells like a lesbian locker room
Rule 34 tells me if you bottle that, you could make a fortune.
Naming it will be important though.
‘Lesbian Locker Room’ might be too on point.
Bouquet Sweate’?
Vestiaire?
Salade de Thon?
L’odeur Corporelle?
Eau de Scissor
Baseball birthdays today is a deep list of the Hall of Very Good. Starts off with HoFer Sam Thompson, who I think fits better at the top of the HoVG instead, but not a big deal. Following him is Lu Blue, Elmer Valo, Del Crandall, Paul Konerko, Kent Tekulve, and Jeff Tesreau.
Kyle Schwarber is top active player at #16. I could see him ending up ahead of Jeffery Hammonds, Steve Ontiveros, and Brian Hunter who are 11 thru 13.
Tekulve was fun to watch. Except in the World Series.
I have an odd fascination with sidearmers.
My team-mate back in 1978 had the same delivery. He could make that ball dance.
Meaning that neither of us knew what the pitch was gonna do. Signals meant nothing to him. Throwing side-arm left everything up to the wrist. He cost me at least one toenail catching for him. The strikeouts were pretty epic, though.
There was a lefty sidearmer in my Babe Ruth league. I sucked at hitting, but I could crush him (relatively). Everyone else struggled against him. He also hit me the hardest I ever got hit by a pitch. He had no control and it just came straight into me. I got my back turned, but that just meant a sore back.
Ouch! Made me a very adept and quick with the glove player though. Also learned to catch with the mitt, not the hand.
I love knuckle-ballers. Tim Wakefield made some really good hitters look silly and some mediocre hitters look great. I loved watching a 50mph pitch tie up Alex Rodriguez.
Paulie was the very definition of Very Good.
Hard to believe he’d be behind Del Crandall though. Maybe in a footrace…
positional adjustment is best bet.
yo sup’ fam ?
Tall Coffees!
I did 2 hours of OT (just finished the invoice- Subject: delay charges), which is typically no big deal unless you were in that nasty facility overnight, all night
I cant get them down fast enough
Sigh. Short cans yet again… I’m in a terrible rut.
Tall Cans and/or regular bottles tonight!
Since it’s Employee Appreciation Day, we’re being gifted one (1) free coffee! (drip only).
What about employees who don’t drink coffee?
Tea or a bottle of water may be substituted.
Free water! And I guess f you wanted to you could take the bottle somewhere and get $0.05 for it. I wonder how you’d have to report that.
Bosses get the Kuerig? That the way it is at both of my sites.
So…you’ve been in my office building before TEH GREAT CLOSURE?
“That’ll show him.”
That is some stupid petty shit.
Stupid and petty is a prog specialty.
They should get permission to dig up his corpse. Then they could burn it and scatter the ashes on a local river.
They should include a show trial. The ashes need to be scattered someplace secret to prevent the location from becoming a Nazi shrine.
What is the point of the blue checkmark anyway?
People You Can Trust™️.
They should change it to a blue donkey-shape.
It used to be a verification that you were, in fact, the individual sending the tweet now it means that you are in fact the person and you have goodthink.
That’s just straight up retarded.
[EF adds blockquote format to quote so less hurty on eyes]
It’s almost like they want to encourage more miles driven or something.
No it’s the slow ratchet towards banning private autos, first de facto, then de jure. This is just like Cash for Clunkers, road “diets” (closing lanes to “calm” traffic), and converting street parking to bike lanes. The truly rich won’t have private autos, per se, they’ll just setup a car service company with as many cars and drivers as the family needs.
In the USSR (and most places that set up governments on that model) only the “top men” got to move around semi-freely. Keeping the serfs in place and making it near impossible for them to travel, guarantees they are not able to see things being different elsewhere, and thus, accept the fate they are assigned more easily.
So the way they have to chosen to punish Safeway and Costco is to support the mom-and-pop enterprises like Exxon, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Amerada Hess, and Mobil?
Big Oil is gonna get that money anyways, because they’re the ones who pumps it for Costco too.
The owners of most gas stations are like McDonalds franchise owners. Hard working. Etc. And they’re the ones who make the money off of any particular sale of gas to an individual. So if you’re looking to help the little guy with your gas purchases, independent gas stations are way better than Costco.
If you want to support the franchisee, go inside and buy the overprised crap from the convenience store. They make better margins on that than on the gas.
Yes. The gas is just a good way to get you inside.
A few evenings ago, I fretted over not being able to find a model and thought I’d accidentally thrown it out.
This morning, I picked up a bottle of isopropyl alcohol, and what should be hiding behind it but the missing model.
Any particular kind of model? Warhammer? Reaper?
Warhammer. The sergeant from the Agressors easy to build box. I used them to test a different painting method for my color scheme. It is 90% done, but well past tabletop legal at something like 9+ colors.
For the record, the new technique was not as good as the old method, but did impart a weathered look to their armor I’m not looking for. But I figured I could make it work for just this squad, since they are only armed with flamers and power fists.
Nice! Do you get to tabletop a lot? It’s something I miss but I’d be lying if I said it was anywhere in my top 30 to do list.
Thoughts on the new Sigmar stuff?
I have not had a chance to play in so long I’m not sure which edition my last game was from.
Shortly after they released the Primaris stuff becuase I deployed Reivers.
Funnily enough, I prefer the AoS fiction to trying to figure out the game. I have some of the starter sets that I haven’t finished assembling, let alone painting.
“well past tabletop legal at something like 9+ colors”
That’s actually a thing, now?
Tabletop legal is three colors.
9+ is how many are on the model.
Unpainted minis are an abomination. I hate fighting gray plastic, so I wholeheartedly support the tabletop legal standard.
Oh dear, this captain only has six colors.
rules like that are why I have never so much as opened a Warhammer rulebook.
Battletech 4 lyfe.
The sculpts on the battletech minis are almost always questionable to piss-poor, and it disappoints me every time I go looking for some to buy.
And technically, the tabletop legal rule is not in the rulebook. It’s a tournament rule that a lot of local groups adopt because the gray plastic armies look terrible.
Considering that we poors always used the cardboard foldovers and/or “This Battlemaster is really an Atlas,” I have exactly zero patience for games that require a huge capital investment.
*resumes searching online for ammo to feed his $1600 handgun*
Also, a big deal (at least in my circle of players) was playing your own designs, so there was never a mini for it anyways.
Sheet, if I was going to run my own design, I could probably scuplt/kitbash a model that’s at least on par with the official work.
Honestly, the majority of the 3025 light designs are just terrible. There is never a reason to put an SRM2 on something that size in lieu of a medium laser.
There is never a reason to put an SRM2 on anything.
That’s why they changed the games to the irritating (to me at least) hardpoint system. Sure, it’s a light mech, but it’s got 10 missile hardpoints!
/scraps mech
/still enjoys the HBS Battletech video game
Games Workshop has always held that the minis had to represent the army list, and models must be assembled and painted (with at least three colors) to be table legal. In their tournaments back in the day, one of the scoring criteria for matches was your paint job (IIRC, it was up to 10 points out of 75 or so, with another 10 in sportsmanship). So it was theoretically possible (and probably happened, but I don’t care enough to search for it) to win a match on the table, but get bumped out of the tournament due to painting and playing like a bitch.
Those rules were one of the big reasons that other mini games started picking up steam, where you didn’t have to pay attention to the fact that this mini you bought had a small grenade on his belt, and you better have it pointed out in the army list.
I don’t know about tournament play, but the WYSIWYG rule is almost never invoked.
I’ve never played tournament, since I so rarely have a chance to play tabletop. But I really like the models and the lore.
I had some friends who were really big into the WH/WH40k scene for a while, including going to big sanctioned tournaments. Don’t think they ever made it deep though. But yeah, in friendly games, proxy and WYSIWYG is pretty much never enforced.
I did a couple of Warmachine/Hordes tournaments back in the day, much lower capital investment.
Also, us Ork players could get points for staying in Orky character throughout the tourney.
WAAAGH!
NERDS!!!
Such delicious envy.
Was the model hiding from you cause you made fun of the fact it was feeling gendered?
It’s plastic. It’s no more a he than the sororitas minis are she.
That was either a tiny model or a huge vat of isopropyl. Was she still articulated?
The model is two inches tall, has zero points of articulation, and it was a 32 oz bottle of alcohol.
This sort of thing sounds an awful lot like ostracizing Jenny because she wore the wrong shoes to school.
They were open-toed, the mark of the slut.
Matt Taibbi was writing about Gogol and mentioned his horrid death and then quipped about how today he would die with a body covered with Twitter trolls instead of leeches.
Sounds like digging up Oliver Cromwell’s body and hanging him for opposing the elites.
The Irish side of me would be on board with that,
When Churchill was First Sea Lord (IIRC), one of his tasks was to name ships. He named one the Assiduous and another the Oliver Cromwell. His majesty was not amused and worried that Assiduous would invite ribald nicknames and that Cromwell was just too much. Churchill (who was related to Cromwell) fired back that one should never hesitate to name one’s warship after a man who made all enemies of England tremble.
By that logic the HMS Adolf Hitler is in the running, since he made his subordinates tremble, and had parkinsons.
How about the USS Hitler?
In 1914, Alois left Bridget and their son for a gambling tour of Europe.
Alpha AF.
You know who else gambled on a tour of Europe?
Genghis Khan?
I pointed to the study form last fall, out of France, I think, covid is a disease of the rich, fat, and old.
So, it’s the new gout?
I’m not fat!
It couldn’t even take down Chris Christie.
Nor Trump who is the perfect demographic for this.
Eh. He doesn’t have any other health problems than being portly.
AND EVIL!!!!!!!!
and orange which helps with the immune system
He’s got special asshole immunity.
That explains the lockdowns.
So that Springsteen write up last night was pretty cool! Glad I took a peak.
Yeah, me too. My loathing of Springsteen runs long, deep and wide but I can appreciate a different appreciation of his music, especially when it comes to personal circumstances. I can’t stand Neil Young anymore but I was a huge fan for forty years. It was the Rolling Stone that set me on my Bruce hate when they wouldn’t cover the bands that I liked. Fuck that bellowing asshole, especially now.
I missed it last night. Springsteen is the prototypical boomer asshole. Started as a radical kid, lucked into ridiculous wealth, never had a middle-class income in his life, and still thinks he speaks for the working-man.
Good morning, Banjos!
I’m happy to see congress trying to curb the war shit, but they tried before and Trump just vetoed it. I don’t think there are enough fuckheads who really want to take responsibility for that to override, but we’ll see.
So the ‘vid clips people with metabolic disorders. I had no idea.
GFY.
A little Madness to round out the week! Thanks for that.
Happy Friday, people. Head on a swivel, though. It’s getting weird out there.
Food shortages for everyone!
Good thing most states closed the gyms, we wouldn’t want those fatties to gather together, would we?
Comrade, Comrade, you’re supposed to sign up for a shift grubbing up root vegetables in the local communal garden.
Yeah, constitutionally, I can wish that the power of Congress to approve or disapprove action explicitly was more clear on that. If a past Congress authorizes the Executive to do something in the military space, what the Executive thinks about the *current* Congress rescinding that shouldn’t matter — it is Congress’s job to authorize or rescind war (or “police action”), barring the obvious immediate reaction to an invasion. Which should also be clearly stated by Congress these days as “not because someone is moving somewhere near an embassy in Kurdistan”.
Which is my long (long) winded way of saying that the President shouldn’t get veto power on such resolutions — it makes no sense. Like vetoing the Senate failing to confirm a nominee….
Kaine: ‘Congress has a responsibility to not only vote to authorize new military action, but to repeal old authorizations’
Where has this cunte been for the past 10/20/30+ years? Fuck you, Tim.
Vote for open ended authorizations. Do nothing when the executive uses the military without authorization. It’s almost like Congress doesn’t want that control.
Why would they? If the president bombs people you oppose, you can cheer him on and raise money for your re-election campaign. If he bombs people you support. you can raise money to campaign against him and remind everyone it’s not your fault.
Congress doesn’t want that
controlblame.That’s what they are avoiding – you can’t really hold us accountable for what we let the Executive branch do!
Responsibility sucks man…
He’s been sucking Hillary’s dick.
Ick, still tastes like Reno.
Texas smoked?
^This was seen and noted.
House Democrats passed a controversial police reform bill late on Wednesday evening that critics argue would effectively “defund the police” by costing police departments across the country hundreds of millions of dollars that they say will force those departments to make cuts to their budgets.
And what, exactly, should the feds have to do with local policing? These cuntes want to nationalize everything. The election “reform” (The For the
PeopleLeftist Politician Act) is wholly unconstitutional but I doubt a feckless Roberts court would bother to hear the dozens of inevitable lawsuits. And they intend to violate clear scotus precedent on guns by attempting to “ban” the ownership of the most common rifle pattern in the country. Who the fuck are the “fascists”, again?This has been a one way ratchet since the Civil Rights Act with a very slight interruption in the 90’s.
9/11 sealed the deal. It’s never going to roll back. Osama may be dead, but he managed to precipitate our eventual downfall by realizing our weak point. We became too accustomed to wealth and security. When actually threatened, even in a non-significant way, we react by abandoning all of our freedoms to our masters.
Who’s “we”?
But also yes.
The bill carefully avoids reducing union protections and power.
/looks at Team Blue donor list
Huh.
Unity, or else
“We believe these bills enjoy overwhelming support among Democrats, Republicans and independents among the American people,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said this week. “Frankly, we don’t know why that support, particularly in terms of Republican support, doesn’t translate to the members of the House or the Senate.”
This week, Democrats passed a sweeping package to overhaul election and campaign finance laws, as well as a bill to change policing policies that was originally drafted in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by police in Minneapolis last year.
Last week, Democrats passed the Equality Act, which would explicitly ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Republicans were nearly unified in opposition to all three measures.
Hoyer said that in the weeks ahead, Democrats will take up legislation to expand labor rights, as well as gun legislation to enhance background checks for purchases and to close the “Charleston loophole” to further tighten the background check system.
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“You don’t have to be much of a mathematician to know, if you’ve got 50 on one side and 50 on the other side, getting things done is tough,” Hoyer acknowledged.
Like a growing number of Democrats, Hoyer said he supports changing filibuster rules. “I personally believe that the filibuster is an undemocratic aspect of the United States Senate. At some point in time, the majority ought to be able to rule,” he said. “And we’ll see if, at some point in time, the Senate gets so frustrated that it repairs to having majority rule.”
Bipartisan consensus, or subjugation by conquest?
Whatever it takes to ram their pet projects through.
Well, when all you really care about is your side or their side, it isn’t surprising that you can’t do anything more than squabble about sides.
Pulling out the gasoline while the storm rages and the ship burns.
He continued, saying, “I mean clearly that shouldn’t be when the other guys are the majority, but we’ll make sure that never happens again, in a democratic fashion.”
“Frankly, we don’t know why that support, particularly in terms of Republican support, doesn’t translate to the members of the House or the Senate.”
About half the House and exactly half of the Senate is comprised of Republicans. So you tell me.
a Black man killed by police in Minneapolis last year.
Except Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose (not to excuse the knee on the neck, even though that is/was supposed standard procedure for the department.).
which would explicitly ban discrimination
The ability to discriminate is necessary for individual freedom, But continue…
legislation to expand labor rights
Right to work? //jk
legislation to enhance background checks for purchases and to close the “Charleston loophole”
Didn’t that cunte pass a background check?
I personally believe that the filibuster is an undemocratic aspect of the United States Senate.
It is almost as if that is by design, seeing as the united States was never intended to be a democracy. Or I may have misread. It is unDEMocratic, as in it inhibits the desires of the Democratic Party.
At some point in time, the majority ought to be able to rule
Someone missed or disapproves of American history/gov’t 101. ///TyrannicalCunte
Ron Johnson is my hero of the day.
FTA
It’s hard to think of a less effective way to inform the American people about what’s in a bill than by forcing an hourslong recitation of incomprehensible legislative language
Incomprehensible legislative language is what’s in the bill. I doubt the Senators themselves know what their aides put in the bill.
Ironically it was the Brennan Center for Justice website that confirmed how bad a bill HR1 is – that an ineligible voter must affirmative OPT OUT of being registered, and that stopping or interfering with ANYONE (including the ineligible) from registering is punishable by federal fine and/or imprisonment.
So let us shine a light on that – everyone bitching about this should be asked, “So, you have already read the entire thing then?”
So Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, for example, is going to offer an amendment that bars states that didn’t see a reduction in revenues—which includes California, for example—from receiving any funds.
No state aid would be better, but this is some decent push back I guess.
PSA: Fenix ammo is dropping 9mm ammo tonight at 8pm EST.
The owner of Fenix was on Rippetoe’s podcast last week. It was a good discussion and got into some of the supply chain challenges, as well as the Biden-voter exclusion on the website.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., the lead Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., reintroduced the Protecting Retirement Savers and Everyday Investors Act after Democrats seized onto the GameStop trading frenzy to make the case for a financial transaction tax.
MOAR. TAXES.
I seem to recall a couple wars fought over taxation.
Odd/old news: Cuomo falsified the nursing home death count!111!
Yeah, everyone knew this, but it was just reported in the New York Times! now we can believe it!
Kudos to the NYT for taking so much time to verify and confirm their sources before just printing some scurrilous rumor, like Cuomo had his nipples pierced by piss hookers, and Sandra Lee left him over his fecalphilia.
We’re not falsifying data, we’re just fortifying it:
Ohio deaths from coronavirus decreased by 596 people due to new counting protocol: Tuesday update
Not the Bee.
That kind of revisionism will come back to haunt… oh who the fuck am I kidding, the goddam sheep will be run off the next cliff just as easily.
“Andrew Cuomo’s aides asked the state health department to change its definition of COVID nursing home deaths, it has been claimed, in a bid to reduce the total and lessen the criticism of the embattled New York governor.
On Thursday night The Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo’s team sought the changes in July.
The bombshell report comes hours after one of three women accusing Cuomo of sexual assault spoke out on television for the first time, adding to his horrendous week. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9328755/Cuomo-aides-rewrote-report-state-health-officials-hide-true-COVID-death-toll-nursing-homes.html
Protecting Retirement Savers and Everyday Investors Act
Abolish the Fed?
*applause*
Nah.
They’re needed to hold down the interest rate as low as possible for as long as possible. Gotta encourage spending and fuck over people who save.
I do appreciate that they still use the word Act in nearly every title, since that’s exactly what it is.
The ‘I Love Puppies and Rainbows Act’
Sure, it authorizes drone strikes against Americans, but why do you hate puppies and rainbows, man?
Morning, glibs. I’m going to ask if anyone can channel their inner Ted`S to help me compile a bunch of songs that spell things out in the lyrics. Mostly spelling out words, like for instance Faith No More’s ‘Be Aggressive’. Any genre, any style, any age; the more diverse the better. Acronyms spelled out is fine, but I’m steering away from just plain old acronymic titles. Thanks in advance for enacting my labor. I’ve got some long ass car trips coming up again and would like to make up some oddball-themed compilations/playlists.
Aretha, Respect
Of course ?
This seems like a fun project, man. Respect.
Hah, first two straight in there. It’s got to be the first track.
This list seems pretty extensive.
Comprehensive!
How did I miss Joko Homo by Devo?
Almost anything by KMFDM. Adidas by Korn, Hollaback Headhunter (Gwen Stefani vs. Front 242) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhxcvm Spelling and numbered lists combined.
Safety Dance, Your Dictionary by XTC, Saturday night by Bay City Rollers, Ramones by Motorhead, Method of Love by Hall and Oats, LOVE by Al Green, I’m a Man by Bo Diddly, Veloria by the Pixes.
How about spelling out the band name?
Freaks in Uniforms by the HorrorPops
long ass car trips
in Britain???
LOLOLOLOL
It’s about 10 hours (9h50m – 618miles) from Plymouth (SW corner of England) to Aberdeen in the far north of Scotland. That’s a solid day’s drive.
Which also means unless you’re just driving in circles around the entire country, there’s no such thing as a long ass drive in England.
In the US, fifty years is a long time. In the UK, fifty miles is a long distance.
It takes longer having to stop for flocks of sheep and lorries parked on one-lane streets.
Does it have to have been released as a single? Because off the top of my head one that wasn’t a single: Marcy Playground’s Death of a Cheerleader.
R O C K in the USA By John Mellencamp
The Mickey Mouse Club House Theme?
In that same theme… Moral Majority by the Dead Kennedys, and if spelling out a name works, you’ve also got the Jimbo Song from the Reverend Horton Heat.
The Ramones – R.A.M.O.N.E.S.
Stetsasonic – A.F.R.I.C.A.
https://youtu.be/9MiLzzxeZoA
Bay City Rollers – Saturday Night.
Some excellent suggestions so far. Thanks, all. I guess I could have skimmed that list I posted and picked stuff I liked but this way I can bias it towards Glibs suggestions so the tracklist reflects some gliberty. I might move this over to a forum thread.
I consider 5 hours to be a long-ass drive, or at least my ass does.
Five hours is nothing. I aim for 6-8 for leasurely road trips.
Weird flex but okay. These aren’t leisurely roadtrips, but weekly commutes.
Have you thought of employment closer to home?
Or am I misreading that and that’s your total commute time?
At the moment I do part of the week elsewhere, so it’s five hours one way and then five hours back a couple days later. My previous job was half an hour each way five days a week, so overall driving time is about double, in two big(ish) chunks. It’s partly due to the route not all being motorway, so progress is a lot slower on them country roads, especially with the regular road closures in my neck of the woods.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Beer run – Garthbrooks
It sucks we lost him this year.
Sorry I wasn’t around earlier.
Double Trouble – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Aerosmith – F.I.N.E.
Jackyl – Dirty Little Mind (yeah, they spell it out incorrectly)
A few more off the top of my head:
LoLa – The Kinks
Blackberry – The Black Crowes
Friction – Television
And two more…..
Gloria – Them
Fish Cheer/I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag – Country Joe and the Fish
I’m a little late to the party, but Van Morrison’s “Gloria”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RI-QtEAwvE&ab_channel=MrsHollyScissorhands
Covid deaths 10 times higher in countries where 50% or more of the population is overweight.
It is more than ten times higher when every death is counted as a convid death.
Pick a side
“It’s only by working together as operators, employees, customers, and Texans that we can finally turn the page and rebuild out of this pandemic,” its statement said.
In Mississippi, Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that Gov. Tate Reeves’ decision to loosen restrictions was “premature and reckless.”
“We are at a crucial moment in the fight against this disease and the path is unclear,” Simmons explained. “We cannot relax. We cannot loosen restrictions. We cannot lift mask mandates. We cannot let our guards down.”
They really are setting us up for civil war.
Vilify, dehumanize, isolate.
They are afraid of looking silly when states reopen and the hospitals and morgues fail to overflow.
^^^THIS^^^
The biggest fear our “expert” class has is that when things go back to normal people will realize that this lockdown charade was for nothing.
Expect the emphasis on some heretofore unmentioned metric that means very little to start getting thrown around and used against places like Texas.
“Sure, deaths are way down and will continue that way, but the Variant Differential number PROVES that REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR ABBOTT’s decision is horrible.”
turn the page and rebuild out of this
///BuildBackBetter ///GreatReset
We are at a crucial moment in the fight against this disease
And what of all the other diseases?
We cannot relax.
*leans back in chair*
Well, I can.
We shall fight on the beaches…
It seems like every single day of the last 357 days has been a “critical moment.”
And every time I turn around there’s another GRIM MILESTONE.
Re: obesity-“ He added: “This report must act as a wake-up call to governments globally.”
Less obesity is good, government led calls to action, and god forbid action, aren’t. No sir, I don’t like it.
The most obese thing in the world is government.
“Yesterday, senators in Alabama voted 23-4 in favor of a bill that would outlaw gender transition surgery for persons under 18.”
Good.
“The bill also includes a provision requiring school staff to notify parents if “a minor’s perception” of “his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex.””
Bad.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberals-please-grow-a-spine-and-say-no-to-child-gender-transition
Hollywood Celebrities Rage at Gov. Abbott for Opening Texas, Lifting Mask Mandate: ‘GOP Is a Death Cult’
Everyone is perfectly free to continue wearing a shame muzzle if they want to.
What gets me is the people who went to Texas et al because the lockdowns in Cali/New York were too draconian for them railing against dropping the restrictions. Nobody made you go there you ungrateful twats.
They are really fucking worried that the serfs will get uppity. Especially since they know it is all a charade anyway.
This just in!
Californians who’ve moved to Texas are pissed that Texas is not just like California.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said the decision by some states to do away with mask mandates and allowing businesses to open at full capacity was “inexplicable.”
The US shouldn’t ease restrictions in place to prevent Covid-19 before the number of new coronavirus cases falls below 10,000 daily, “and maybe even considerably less than that,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Thursday.
Come on, Foochy. Prove how effective that mask is. I’ll get the bear spray.
I’d like to spay him, if you know what I mean. [Note to NSA: with fresh bear urine, no mechanical devices of any sort involved.]
Chert blades are non-mechanical.
A wedge is a simple machine, thus mechanical.
Appropriate typo.
Tonio is on a roll.
Hoisted on my own petard, as it were. LOL
All you need is a rubber band to castrate hogs.
And the special tool.
I’d settle for him explaining why 10,000 new daily cases is an important marker.
Especially considering that “cases” does not necessitate symptoms.
Prove how effective that mask is.
The explicit legal disclaimer that is on all of them when purchased is all you need.
Petaluma bans all new gas stations in push to curb emissions
Because people can’t go to the next county…I’m sure limiting choice will do wonders for the consumers.
Driving farther to refuel…good for emissions?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/supersonic-combat-drone-concept-unveiled-singapore-already-100-pre-orders
You think these things or functional or is this another military fantasy money grab?
DARPA is doing serious work on supersonic drone swarms using AI to coordinate saturation attacks…
Some of this new stuff makes Skynet look like a pussy.
Joe Biden as President is like a little kid on one of those fairground rides who actually thinks the steering wheel does something.
Maggie from the Simpsons.
“Capitol Police request National Guard stay in DC for another two MONTHS after unspecified ‘threat’ from right-wing militia FAILED to materialize on March 4 – the day QAnon believers thought Trump would become president again
The Capitol Police have requested that members of the National Guard stay in Washington DC for another two months, after the unspecified ‘threat’ from right-wing militia failed to materialize on March 4.
US Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman released a statement Thursday revealing she had formally asked the Department of Defense to extend the support provided by the guard troops just days before their deployment was due to end on March 12.
Pittman has not publicly confirmed the length of the proposed extension but the Associated Press has learned it will be for a further 60 days through May 12 and will involve a reduced number of around 2,200 troops.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9326627/Police-request-60-day-extension-Guard-US-Capitol.html
Until the next threat, and then the next. Kind of like how we were at terrorism level orange for 10 years.
April 15 is coming up, and then there’s Cinco de Mayo, and then June 14 when the continental army was created, and then July 4, and then…
August 8th, because 8-8.
Oh yeah, that was supposed to happen yesterday. Sounds like a big surprise that nothing happened.
It was going to happen, but then the Qtarded trumpalos started believing in a fake conspiracy theory that it was a fedgov trap.
And no reporter sought out to ask what this unspecified threat was? If unspecified, is it a threat? No reporter said…hey you requested a large bump in your budget based on this unspecified threat…
That leaves the door wide open to remain a standing force in our Capitol. There is always a threat, but they have dropped all sense of reality and I would suspect it will be 4 years of it in some form or fashion.
I recall the quote yesterday said “on or about,” which is deliberately vague.
Much as publicity-hungry psychics will often go on tv to say the missing body is “near water,” which term is later revealed to mean household plumbing, any sort of drain or sewer, fish tanks, etc.
Hey bub, they’ll yank your licence for spilling trade secrets like that.
That’s the exact plot of a Rockford Files episode.
unspecified ‘threat’
Curious, that is.
The Heart Of Democracy™️.
“Failed to materialize” presupposes that not only was an event possible, but almost certain to happen. And I think we all know that’s a huge lord of horseshit. The threat was never about a threat, but about insisting there is an ongoing threat in a ruse to assure the troops stay. They initially were supposed to be 2 weeks. Then until mid-March, due to an “armed insurrection” that never happened, and now mid-May due to an “unspecified” attack that “failed to materialize.”
Any bets on when the fences come down and the troops sent home?
I’ll put 5 bucks on “not in my lifetime.”
Guardsmen wanna go home too, they have another life, I betcha
Biden Narrows Stimulus Eligibility Ensuring Some 12 Million Won’t Receive Payments Because He’s a Punk
For all of Biden’s tough-guy bullshit, Biden got punked. He’s been punked throughout this entire process. When Biden met with centrist Democrats a month ago and it was proposed that stimulus payments end at $50,000 a year, Biden was with this, too—until backlash led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) forced him to change his stance.
Where is the Biden who wants to take guys behind the bleachers and fuck them up? Where is the Biden who told a voter “he’s full of shit and asked him to step outside after he said some shit that Biden didn’t like? Where is the Biden who faced down Corn Pop at the swimming pool?
WTF, Joe?
The punk couldn’t possibly be the voters, could it?
I thought democrats called voters bitches & hos?
Anyone else remember when “compromise” was a progressive meme?
My dream is that some voter takes Biden up on his offer to step outside. Biden then tells his Secret Service detail to stand down because he’s a real man and won’t need their help. Then gets the stuffing beat out of him by Fats the Voter.
While that would be great, the better moment would be the hearings where outraged Senators demanded to know how the SS let their Presidementia get beaten so badly. Each SS agent would take the mic, smirk and say “He gave us a direct order to stand down and we obeyed him”.
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
My friend John Lewis said, “The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society.”
We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect it.
The Senate must pass the For The People Act.
I cannot begin to describe my contempt for these tyrannical cuntes.
They always leave out the part about illegitimate votes de facto depriving people of their legitimate votes though. What they want is quasi democratic tyranny.
I kinda like how it advertises that the ignorant and apathetic are presumed to be Democrat voters.
For all the hand wringing in the local media regarding face masks in TX, you’d think everyone was against the coming mask mandate being dropped. But I was far from the only one at the local grocery store maskless yesterday, including some of the women, who as a group seem more compliant. And the mandate isn’t being lifted till next week. I suspect the maskers are going to be the outlier after the 10th when the mandate is lifted.
I’m a raging optimist, I know, but I truly believe that most people wearing masks public are doing so just to avoid being yelled at by the Karen brigade.
Yup. Plus we get to keep feeding our families.
Even worse are the people who comprise the Karen brigade, who wrap themselves in the righteous mantle of public health virtue but who are actually getting off on controlling the behavior of others.
It’s just common sense Tonio.
But if you capitulate, the Karens win.
Yeah, but you can’t really go around bitch-slapping them…
I think things will be no different sadly.
Disinformation campaign
“The minute the pandemic hit,” says Linvill, “s*** hit the fan.”
Instead of monitoring a wave of foreign disinformation seeking to sow mistrust in democratic institutions and elections, domestic sources doing the same thing surged instead.
“I’m not even seeing [Russian disinformation] messaging much in English to the same extent that I’ve seen in the past, because they don’t need it,” Linvill said. “I mean, the GOP has taken the ball from them and run with it.”
In the past year, Americans spent more time than ever online and got more of their information from unreliable or false sources. Even with the de-platforming of former President Donald Trump, experts say the way Americans communicate and receive information online remains broken.
It’s a crisis that is ripping families apart and led to a violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol in January.
A recent report about that attack from the nonpartisan Election Integrity Partnership concluded that while it was appalling to watch, it should not have been viewed as surprising considering what was happening all year online.
If you disagree with the official NPR/WaPo narrative, you’re a traitor and seditionist. The spasm of disrespect at the Capitol was completely predictable. Politicians who think they can shit all over half the population with impunity need to have their understanding of DEMOCRACY recalibrated.
You cannot allow the duly elected President of the United States to have unfettered access to channels of communication with the people who elected him. That’s crazy.
I mean, the GOP has taken the ball from them and run with it.
The Dems in 2016 could not be reached for comment.
sow mistrust in democratic institutions and elections
Democrats are current attempting to ensure that no reasonably intelligent individual will have faith in said items.
a violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol
When the fuck did this happen?
need to have their understanding of DEMOCRACY recalibrated
Dems are currently attempting to ensure Democracy forever.
Not a bad idea.
I have a copy of Song of the South. What’s the bid for a NFT of it?
10 years in jail and a $500,000 fine.
I’ll trade it for my copy of The Five Chinese Brothers if you’re interested.
Well…
2 Used from $893.75
Can you image the “woke cut” version of “Gone With the Wind?” Cut out every reference to the old South, plantation society, enslaved folks, Confederate soldiers, greedy capitalist mill owners, violence against abolitionist bummers, etc. etc. and all you have left is the two minute clip where Scarlett is grubbing in the dirt for some rotten veggies and then pukes.
HERSTORY!
The Militarization of Government Agencies
It seems instead of using a common facility security force, each agency establishes its own. Here are some agencies that bought guns, ammunition and military supplies:
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
USDA, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
USDA, OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION
WTF
Gotta stop Wonder Woman from stealing their jets.
Then being able to make it invisible, ’cause awkward fan service.
They were completely unprepared and frankly quite embarrassed the last time a magic tablet brought all the exhibits to life.
Well, they do have lots of expensive art and jewels and stuff.
Doesn’t the Department of Education have their own SWAT team?
It’s for when someone spots a gun in the background during virtual instruction.
Hey, you can’t come down too hard on those loan scofflaws and admissions cheats!
Like that time Wisconsin DNR used their own SWAT team because someone had a deer fawn?
There is, or used to be, the Federal Protective Service which was GSA’s police force. GSA is the supply and landlord agency for much of the US FedGov. FPS, and GSA, were widely and rightly regarded as a clownshow by the rest of the federal civilian service. FPS was, I believe, rolled into DHS.
Yes, and FPS has big “police” emblazoned on their vehicles.
I still think they should be security guards with jurisdiction limited to federal property only with no general arrest or other police powers. Call the local cops to arrest someone just like private businesses must do.
Oh, Kayleigh.
“I’ve said before and I mean it: I wish Jen Psaki all the best,” McEnany answered. “It is a very hard job. But that being said, we took great pains in our administration to do hours and hours and hours of research beforehand, days sometimes, calling (former Secretary of Health and Human Services) Secretary (Alex) Azar sometimes, calling (former Department of Justice spokesperson) Kerri Kupec over at the Justice Department to get answers.”
“And the great thing about being in the Trump White House was I always knew where my boss stood,” McEnany continued. “Unlike other press secretaries that maybe didn’t have walk-in privileges to the Oval, I could walk in at any time. I always knew where he stood. Before every press conference, I would go in with a list of items that I thought the press would ask and go through one by one. I always knew where his head was at, so I didn’t have to do a ton of circling back because President Trump gave a lot of access to me.”
I’m going to have to circle back because, for the meantime, I’ll be in my bunk.
That was a gracious answer. Bunk..engage
“Her boss is senile, and she is an unprepared and lazy hack.” in polite language.
+1 Bless Her Heart
Seeing her ritualistically humiliate the press was probably the most enjoyable part of the Trump administration. Also, would, vigorously.
Like a piston engine would! Hell, Mazda if she preferred!
Festus is an eccentric!
Someone explain to this cunte how solar panels are made and from where the overwhelming majority of electricity necessarily has to come.
“Yeah, I mean, first of all, joy, thanks for this question. I mean, Joe Biden has said when he hears the words climate change, he thinks of jobs, and the opportunity here for Americans in every pocket of the country to experience both the benefits of cost reduction as a result of clean energy as well as jobs is so exciting. It’s why I’m so honored to be part of this, because the mission here is about deploying clean energy and about creating jobs all over the country, all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people, and with respect to cost, I mean, just as one example, Joy, I mean, I drive a Chevy Bolt which is an electric vehicle. I don’t have to buy gasoline. The average person that gets an electric vehicle saves $600 a year because you don’t have to fill it up. I have solar panels on my house. So I drive on sunshine. That’s a fantastic technological advancement and that’s what the Department of Energy is all about, is solutions like that.”
The math works out. For just a $12,000 initial investment, you can save $600 per year!
Oh, but you can’t compare your less expensive car to the electric car. Even if you have a lower cost of ownership, you miss out on all the features you don’t care about. You can only compare it to a car of similar price. At least that is what I was told when I paid $20,000 less on an ICE car.
BTW, I actually hate many of Tesla’s features, like the door handles and table control system.
I’m unfamiliar with that those ‘features’ are or do. Care to elaborate?
I assume he’s referring to the fact that Teslas use a tablet mounted on the dash to control the car’s climate control, radio, etc
https://i.insider.com/5a861ac9d0307255048b46d2?width=1800
Menus and submenus for changing vent fan speed and the like.
So what do the door handles do strangely?
The door handles retract to be flush with the body. They are supposed to flip out when they detect the fob. They don’t work well when you get a coating of ice over them.
Tesla puts almost all controls and gauges on a tablet (where is the edit feature) in the middle of the console. You have to reach over and use a touch screen to adjust controls that are normally on the wheel, column or at least easy to find on the dash. They’ve had problems with the tablet malfunctioning so you can’t even see your speed.
Tesla 3
Sooo… Elon has never seen snow, nor driven himself?
A mechanical control is safer because I can make the adjustment without having to take my eyes off the road. And I almost never have a passenger.
Let me guess, the turn signal is behind six menus.
Model 3 Doors and Windows
Note that you have to use the tablet to open the glove box.
Do these designers not realize how error-prone computers are?
Or do they simply not care?
Musk wanted sexy not functional.
Functional is a pre-requisite for sexy. Without functional, it’s all ugly.
*note this is a statement about cars and user interfaces.
I like being able to heat the cabin using the waste heat from the engine.
I like having the same range in subzero conditions as when the sun is beating down.
I like a five minute recharge time.
What features would I be gaining for losing all those?
I’m in a two car household. I would have bought electric for my use if it met my criteria. Tesla was too expensive and had so many bad features. They wanted sexy instead of a functional car with electric motors.
I saw a Tesla the other day, with the vanity plate ‘COAL PWR’.
That’s more of a sense of humor than I expect from a Tesla owner…
Either that car gets around, or live near some other glibs, because I’ve heard that one before.
I was going to say the same thing, but I was too busy upthread.
I’ve seen a few variants around the area. Also some bumper stickers, which makes me wonder if the car’s owner was even involved in the joke…
A dude I used to work with had a Mini Cooper with a “COMPS8N.” I thought it was amusing.
“I drive on sunshine”
It’s magic: Zim Sala Bim…electricity
I recently watched “Yes, Minister” again. It’s a good primer for how government operates.
If you haven’t seen it, the Australian show Utopia is in a very similar vein – https://youtu.be/VTb57–Lcxk
Thanks. I will check it out.
The math works out. For just a $12,000 initial investment, you can save $600 per year!
Good enough for government work.
I will come back to haunt my kids if they turn my death into a political ad. CWAA
“Her obituary celebrated her love for “her children and grandchildren, her cat, Sam, books, friends, politics, and Chardonnay.”
In life, as death, a total cliché.
Double downer
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, again criticized other states including Texas that are loosening coronavirus restrictions and encouraged Californians to consider wearing two masks on Thursday.
“We are encouraging people, basically, to double down on mask-wearing, particularly in light of all that I would argue is bad information coming from at least four states in this country,” Newsom said at a press conference. “We will not be walking down their path. We’re mindful of your health and our future.”
“I’ll just note … that the positivity rate in those states is substantially higher than even here in the state of California,” Newsom continued.
Come on, Gavin- give us a demonstration of how well that mask works.
I’d prefer if he’d demo a ball gag for us.
I think he enjoys that, NTIAJWHDITB
Shouldn’t double masking be the Tuesday special? Or is he worried that Taco Tuesday already owns that day, so he has to go with Twomask Thursday?
Goddammit!
State courts have bent over backwards to provide him with cover. We’re fucked. Apparently we can’t even pass laws with a supermajority in this state. Even when we do, courts halt it.
The woodchipper needs gassing up.
https://www.lex18.com/news/coronavirus/judge-grants-temporary-injunction-on-bills-that-would-limit-gov-beshears-covid-19-powers
How temporary is temporary, they gonna hear the case tomorrow?
two weeks
*quiet applause*
Yeah, that’s too long.
Ah, I get it…need moar coffee
Run! Rat’s head is about to explode!
Apparently the legislature needs to appeal to the state Supreme Court, which can likely take as long as they want.
The State Supreme Court upheld him unanimously last year under the previous law. And the governor is using that decision to justify his lawsuit against the new law (“But the Supreme Court said I was not outside of my authority so how can they change the law to lessen my authority?”).
These laws are dead. We’re fucked.
We need a fleet of woodchippers.
So the judge wants to be impeached and removed from office?
Checks and balances against the people, instead of government.
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
The Minnesoda courts have also rubber stamped all the actions taken by King Walz. They say that the emergency powers granted to him do actually allow him to do whatever he wants.
Would be nice if maybe they’d rule on what exactly an emergency is. Not sure how something that has been going on for a year still qualifies as an event that is so extreme that all checks and balances need to be suspended.
Mass. Civil. Disobedience. Now.
The least the legislature could do is impeach that asshole.
Apparently we can’t even pass laws with a supermajority in this state. Even when we do, courts halt it.
DEMOCRACY!
When the left gets their way it’s democracy, when they don’t it’s folly.
When the left gets their way it’s democracy, when they don’t it’s
follyFACSIM!!111!.I’d prefer if he’d demo a ball gag for us.
A scold’s bridle would also work.
The problem with that is that the shipping charges when you order one from Etsy are prohibitive. At least that is what a friend told me.
Support your local blacksmith.
“QAnon theorists switch date to March 20 after no Trump inauguration, call the 4th “false flag
As federal law enforcement agencies braced for QAnon conspiracy theorists to engage in potential acts of violence on Thursday, leading affiliates of the far-right extremist movement seemed to amend formerly held beliefs about the significance of March 4….
Alex Kaplan, a senior researcher at right-wing media watchdog Media Matters for America, showcased the growing skepticism among QAnon influencers in an ongoing Twitter thread. The thread included screenshots of their posts to various chat platforms, such as Telegram, describing March 4 as a “false flag” constructed by mainstream news organizations and internal double agents to deceive true QAnon proponents…
Some QAnon supporters seemed to rebrand the March 4 conspiracy in the wake of community suspicion. While two individuals affiliated with the false theories simply suggested that Trump’s inauguration would take place some time in the spring, one man, identified as Ken, told Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel that the former president “will be inaugurated again on March 20” in comments over the weekend. Ken also believes that “Trump is still in command of the military” and “Biden is acting as president as a ruse while the Pope and others are rounded up,” according to Weigel.
The upcoming date will mark the 167th anniversary of the Republican Party’s founding. Former members of the Whig Party are said to have technically established the GOP during a meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin, on March 20, 1854.”
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-theorists-switch-date-march-20-after-no-trump-inauguration-call-4th-false-flag-1573871
“one man”
Or, and stay with me here, that the ‘QAnon’ folks are actually pointing out that they never intended to have any actions on March 4 when they said it was a ‘false flag’ cause they were not pushing it, our own government was pushing it to get what they want; a permanent standing security force surrounding the capitol.
1) I’m still here. No one is gonna be rounding me up.
2) This QAnon crap is either some DC LEO who is trying to rake up some extra cash by getting all this OT to stop an insurrection or 4Chan
3) If it is 4Chan they should start a rumor that the secret white supremacist greeting in DC is to pretend to take a pic on your cell phone. I envision a Knights Who Say Nie scenario. As frightened lefties see someone trying to take a pic in the Capitol they will attempt to take a pic of the nazi only to have some other proggie take a pic of them striking the new white supremacist pose.
Just make double or triple masking the sooper secret QAnon symbol of recognition.
Brilliant!
Man, the 4-channers are playing these fools for fiddles it seems like.
Q Anon aka 4Chan is just leading federal law enforcement around by the nose now although, let’s be honest, the feds know this is all bullshit.
Do they? I kind of think they really are that stupid.
’nuff said…
The Conservative pounced!
Dude, MM4A is the most unimpeachableist source evah!
And how has Dave Weigel managed to not been beaten to death by now?
Fuck Dave Weigel.
QAnon theorists switch date
Q theorists, federal agents. Tomayto, tomahto.
Q – watch us make these assholes dance.
My God. Celebrities. When will natural selection kick in on that group?
Smart people are unattractive? I’ve got nothing. Ahoy, fellow Canuck!
If I had a time machine, I’d got back to Hedy Lamarr and say “Hey babe, wanna go back to my place? It’s in the 21st century. I’ve got a time machine.”
Why would you take a woman like that to a shithole like now?
Do you think that having Hollywood A-listers denounce your state as stupid actually hurts?
Seems like the Texans would hear that shit and double down on opening. Fuck those west coast assholes, amirite?!
Maybe it is a signal to the fifth column Californians who have snuck into Texas?
Speaking of electric vehicles….
Minnesoda lawmakers are doing their best to fuck things up
Or maybe you could just do nothing? Let’s see if electric cars really are going to be a thing. Metro users might love them, but I’m guessing that people living out in the boonies might be less than thrilled with the range of these cars (especially in the cold).
Virginia had special license plates for low-emissions vehicles. The plates let you drive in HOV lanes without the required number of passengers. They stopped issuing the plates and phased out the HOV exemption as the prices of the vehicles made them affordable to the middle class.
Some QAnon supporters seemed to rebrand the March 4 conspiracy in the wake of community suspicion. While two individuals affiliated with the false theories simply suggested that Trump’s inauguration would take place some time in the spring, one man, identified as Ken, told Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel that the former president “will be inaugurated again on March 20” in comments over the weekend. Ken also believes that “Trump is still in command of the military” and “Biden is acting as president as a ruse while the Pope and others are rounded up,” according to Weigel.
Tune in tomorrow; same time, same channel, for another edition of “Scary Campfire Stories”.
I did kinda wonder about the Pope’s visit to the mideast. But oh, well.
I will laugh my ass off if the QAnon guys just keep coming up with another date a week or two out, and another, and another, forever. We’ll have National Guard troops hanging around bitching about per diems and metal shavings indefinitely.
In the “we are not conspiracy theorist” wing of the Left – new line is these accusers of Cuomo are Republican plants led to push a Republican Guv into NY to pardon Trump.
“- Mr. Rate: That’s how a conspiracy works. Them boys on the Grassy Knoll they were dead within three hours, buried in the damned desert, unmarked graves out past Terlingua.
– Nick Memphis: You know this for a fact?
– Mr. Rate: Still got the shovel.”
Ahh. Great line, but that movie makes me so sad.
That’s funny because I’m pretty convinced they are Democrat plants giving Rat-Faced Andy-The-Mobbed-Up-Lawyer an easy out to avoid investigation into his nursing home murders.
All the girls look…eerily similar. Either the guv has a very particular type or yeah, they were recruited. If I were to keep up a conspiracy about it. I think he is like most men in power, he tries to get what he wants using that position.
PJMedia continuing the dive into the St. Louis family court sham.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2021/03/04/great-balls-of-fire-judges-gone-wild-in-the-missouri-judiciary-make-telenovelas-look-humdrum-n1430108
This one a little Sun Times but the one judge is a smokeshow that is probably crazy AF.
Is the Andrew Breitbart on a five day drunk looking guy the prosecutor she’s banging. And yeah, not bad looking at all.
If you desire to see a fictionalized story that closely resembles the reality of elder law and court guardians, and will drive you absolutely batshit angry, check out I Care A Lot on Netflix.
Not fictional, and It has me enraged! Lady gets guardian appointed for her and is shipped off to a nursing home without any warning or hearing.
https://youtu.be/uz3yBlM5w80
To Scruffy’s credit, he did say fictionalized..maybe more dramatized is the better term? I probably will watch in the future.
Sorry. I did not mean that Scruffy’s link was not fictional. I posted a video from lawtalker Steve Lehto about a lady who had her life and property stolen by a lawyer and a Guardianship company. It’s truly outrageous (JEMM!) and I would be moved into murder/arson territory if it were my mom.
Yep. Stories like this need to be written about the whole guardianship/family court get up that occurs across the nation.
I had someone warn me away from watching that – think I’ll stick with his recommendation.
I nearly burst a vein when I first read about April Parks in real life. That is a person I could kill in cold blood without the slightest moral qualm.
I’ve thought a lot about how I would handle a similar situation. The law, the system, the courts, everything is stacked against you. The mistake is believing that you can win against those forces when the game is rigged.
I personally know of a case in California where millions were stolen by a group of attorneys working in concert with a home care nurse. There was no limit to what they were willing to do in order to keep their scam going, including getting the son put in jail on fabricated assault charges.
I’ve pretty much decided that it would be highly unfortunate for anyone who attempted to pull that scam on me or my family.
What I want to know about the Parks case is what happened to the judge who approved those guardianships. They were almost certainly complicit and probably should be hanging from a lamppost.
I just read about the urns of remains being found in her storage unit. Damn… that’s dragged from the house by torch-wielding mob and strung up from a tree in the yard territory.
Here’s the full New Yorker article that focuses on that case:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights
I’ve been stunned at the vitriol the MSM has been putting out because states are ending mask mandates. You’d think that Texas was going to make it mandatory to french kiss a hobo before you can enter a store.
One article I read yesterday on CNN (too lazy to look it up now) boiled down to: “I’d rather have my customers mask up, and with a mandate my preferences are in place and I don’t have to compete with other stores that don’t require a mask for my customers’ business”
Why does capitalism force me to weigh costs and benefits and make decisions?
Because it gives personal choice. The media and government want to be our choice makers, not that pesky individual.
I think it is more that “I can use the govt to force people to do what I want without having to confront them personally”
Blame the future on the past,
Always lost in bloody guts.
And when they’re gone, it’s me and you.
Living on a thin line,
Tell me now, what are we supposed to do?
It’s the same reason many lower and middle managers aren’t entirely opposed to unions.
That also.
One article I read yesterday on CNN (too lazy to look it up now) boiled down to: “I’d rather have my customers mask up, and with a mandate my preferences are in place and I don’t have to compete with other stores that don’t require a mask for my customers’ business”
I saw one of those. Large companies and the Chamber of Commerce saying, “Make our decisions for us! Thinking and acting for ourselves is too hard!”
I’m fine with opinions that state “I’d rather”.
So be it.
I’d rather not.
And another thing…
People who wear a
maskpathogen incubator, and then take the fucking thing off and lay it on the bar or on the table. That kind of defeats the purpose of “cootie containment” if that’s what you think you’re doing, doesn’t it?It’s the willful refusal to think or behave rationally which pisses me off most, I think.
They don’t see the connect because the Government told them that was acceptable practice. So in their minds, the experts have told them, walking into the bar with a mask keeps you safe and sitting down and removing the mask keeps you safe, and reapplying the mask anytime you need to use the bathroom keeps you safe.
They are, in their mind, following the rules that keep them safe.
No. Simply walking through the threshold of a restaurant with mask on and then taking it off 5 seconds later when you sit down defeats covid.
Fact.
I’ll just leave this one here… ‘cuz it’s kinda my schtick.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-military-personnel-opting-out-of-vaccine-are-part-of-the-problem/ar-BB1ehb5J?ocid=ientp
“Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, on Thursday, told U.S. military members that those of them who decide not to get the coronavirus vaccine are ‘inadvertently part of the problem’ of prolonging the pandemic.”
This guy cannot possibly fuck off and die fast enough.
Yeah. Looks through the chain of command…nope, don’t see it. Fuck off Fauci. I wonder if he even knows the experimentation that soldiers get over their whole existence that the US government has done.
Well, it’s not like they’d inject soldiers with anthrax or whatever. Right?
Paging Mr. Ozy, Mr. Ozy please pick up the white courtesy phone
Looks up…I mean, he did post this…
Especially problematic that our armed forces are chock full of people in the high risk categories: old, sick, infirm.
I’d love to know how many members of the armed forces have died from the Rona. That carrier? How many burials at sea were there?
My gut tells me that the number would be very close to collegiate athletes who have died, or school aged children in Minnesoda: ZERO.
Six last I checked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_USS_Theodore_Roosevelt
Wiki says just the one 41 year old
According to JAMA, out of 4800 crew members, 736 got the WuFlu, six were hospitalized, one died.
Who are you going to believe? A bunch of actual data or the Great High Witchdoctor of the Bureaucracy?
Don’t you remember when the ‘vid killed off the entire crew of an aircraft carrier?
Loudon Wainwright III or Bob Dylan
I am bored at work.
I’m drinking too much, working too much and my diet has gone to shit. Glib-weight remains consistent but morale is mighty low. Hope you Glibbies make the best of it. I’m out for today.
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert
Did he go to court to have his name legally changed? Is that on his driver’s license? You hardly ever see him referred to any other way.
I think that at the least he should have to defend his title every year.
Next up would be Minnesoda’s own Osterholm. He’s hungry for the title.
A lucha libre competition seems appropriate.
Only if it is a locked cage match and we throw away the key.
It’s blue-jean Friday for some of the office ladies. Trying not to creep, but goddam…
*looks around office*
I’m all alone…
It’s no pants Friday for UCS!
No pants year and change for me.
As of yesterday, it’ll have been one year since I was last in my main office, after next week, it’ll be a year since I’ve stepped foot in any office that I support.
Next week is my Coronaversary.
EW
So is he.
Since so many of my coworkers (but not me) started WFH, it’s blue jean day every day for me.
Sometimes I miss wearing my dresses. Maybe when the weather gets warmer…
Just one of my job “perks” – jeans are standard working apparel.
Our payroll processor has had a system outage all week, but they said they could process direct deposits today for the same net pay each employee got last time. Our DDs usually post around 7 a.m. ET, but they haven’t yet.
There’s steam coming out of my boss’s ears. It’s good I only have to take temps checking for COVID and I DON’T have to check BP.
🙁
They might be in violation of some contractual requirements there.
Our Accounting Goddess just reported that the payroll wire has been processed, so there may be hope…
Does she answer prayers?
She does, but usually the answer is “No.”
I am the Administrative Goddess, but I have few, if any, acolytes.
My powers seem to be limited to recognizing obscure causes of application failure.
Paraphrased Consultant: “We can start either one instance or the other, but the second one we try to start always fails when trying to create its listeners. but the listener ports don’t overlap…”
Me: “I’m starting to think Message Queues or Semaphores.”
*a little while later*
Error Log “Unable to create message queue.”
No, I’m not making any of that up.
I can often troubleshoot things off the bat like that as well. It’s a function of having tons of experience and a good mental model of how things work, I suspect.
https://quillette.com/2021/02/27/the-evolutionary-advantages-of-playing-victim/
“Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood (whether real, exaggerated, or false) are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead. Victimhood signaling is associated with numerous morally undesirable personality traits, such as narcissism, Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and exploit others for self-benefit), a sense of entitlement, and lower honesty and humility.”
It is fun when studies are done on things like this that are right out in the open and easily seen.
This article just further victimizes BIPOC people and members of the LGBTQIA community.
Sure, until victimhood becomes a social Ponzi scheme, which is exactly what intersectionality, et al entice into existence.
It works right up until people stop giving a shit. We are rapidly approaching that point.
Victimhood signaling is associated with numerous morally undesirable personality traits, such as narcissism, Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and exploit others for self-benefit), a sense of entitlement, and lower honesty and humility.
Emotionally manipulative assholes are emotionally manipulative?
I never saw that coming.
Pathological personality disorder of some sort, on the so-called spectrum from BPD through to full-blown psychopath. A lot of the modern left is where a great deal of BPD-level people congregate because it’s the perfect ideological sanctuary for them. I think there are a great deal of them among the online meme/troll culture as well – what is often associated with the “alt-right” but which has no clear philosophy or motivation beyond snark and some sort of miserable post-modern nihilism. They share that a great deal with the left, but lack the fever-dream visions of building some horrible totalitarian progressive new world order. They all want to tear everything down, but they don’t all want to build something worse? Perhaps.
Well said. “Ideological sanctuary,” is a really good descriptor.
Congressman Al Green
@RepAlGreen
I love my country and believe that freedom is not free. Others have made great sacrifices for the freedoms I enjoy. I refuse to surrender our nation’s Capitol to those who would abridge my freedom. Hence, as a matter of personal principle, I will be in the Capitol complex today.
Then why do you wish to abridge MY freedom. Fuck DC.
Does he want a medal?
I’m going to work today as well, just like millions of other people.
He should have ended that post with a ‘unity’ message – “let’s get together.”
Man, Robbie keeps sounding like this he’s lose his gig at TOS for being too extreme:
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1367543463667982342
Not a “to be sure” to be seen.
Upside of a character limits?
*Robby
Fruit Sushi gettin’ red-pilled. Still can’t change a tire I bet.
He lurks here sometimes, no? Robby, if you see this, all is forgiven. Keep up this type of behavior and I’ll cheerfully teach you how to change your tire and drink your whiskey neat.
Hey peeps. It’s Employee Appreciation Day at my place of employ.
At least they made it meaningful by direct depositing our bonuses today.
All us managers get to hand out treat bags in a line from the “War Room” conference room or outside in the drive through line for the more virus paranoid workers. That part is rather silly but I’ll be doing my part to look like I’m smiling under the mask.
I don’t know about anyone else, but these designated appreciation days where the people supposedly being appreciative just go through the generic motions end up making me feel less appreciated.
“Do you even know my name or what I do?”
Yay! It must be heartening to work for a place that actually cares about its employees. For our Employee Appreciation at the grocery store, management orders a bunch of pizzas from the pizza parlor next door to us in the shopping center. The pizza is just on the decent side of mediocre; however, they order the pizza around lunch time and by the time my crew is ready to eat, around midnight, the pizza is cold and gross.
Sort of related – today is a “Wellness Day” – i.e., a company-wide paid day off. One of 7 they’ve given us for 2021. On top of the 12 holidays. On top of the up-to-six-weeks of PTO.
I’m never going to be able to use all of that time, but it’s nice to not have to hoard the days.
People here are perfectly willing to live under military occupation and pandemic lockdown indefinitely. They actually care what the CDC thinks!
Huh.
Perhaps a flicker of comprehension.
outside in the drive through line for the more virus paranoid workers.
Fire it through the window.
I like the way you think.
Today is trash and recycling. The company provides the containers (the remote dump type). They will give you a second of each if you request. Yet people still think that if they just dump stuff at the curb it will be picked up. End rant.
Needs more Karens in your neighborhood.
HOA already exists.