As much as I bitch about life here in Arizona, it does have three things going for it: mountains, Second Amendment rights, and no Daylight Savings Time. So I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone here bellyaching about DST knowing that it doesn’t affect me. Oh wait, it does- I have to have Links up an hour earlier.
Birthdays today include some poor schmuck caught in between; a guy who seduced the innocent; a guy who was movin’ kinda slow; a guy who refused to be put into a box; a guy who inflicted several generations of bad acting on us; a woman who hosted one of the best PBS series ever (and was, truth be told, better than Billy Taylor); a guy who inflicted his idiot son on us; a horrific piece of shit who ruined millions of lives (and may he roast in Hell); a guy who was not a sniper in Vietnam; the guy who inflicted Kamala on us; a guy who didn’t bang Marlo Thomas; a woman that Cosby didn’t have to roofie; a guy who inspired our own Q; a guy who played some pseudo-sport; a drummer who’s also the answer to a trivia question; a guy whose motto was “Mom liked you best”; and a girl or a guy who is impossible to parody.
News, yes.
“Here’s a hate crime for you, a hate crime for you, a hate crime for you…”
Missing from the story: who’s stuck with the bill.
If (((we))) had thought of this, Egypt would have had eleven plagues.
“Nothing you haven’t told her twice already.”
I’m sure this is somehow the fault of Jews. Or Trump.
Old Guy Music was decided last Saturday in Zoom.
DOE officials said they will streamline relief for borrowers with verified claims of defraud by universities.
I’m a victim of defraud myself.
You are a net taxpayer? Then yes, yes you are being butt-fucked.
Given how much I’ve learned from my government and how much they’ve defrauded me, I wonder if I can get some of my debt cancelled with .GOV.
I’m a dumbass. I’m debt free. What about me? Can I get a Fiscal Responsibility Awardᵀᴹ or something?
*covers ears to drown out the derisive cackling*
Sucker!
/points & laughs
^ Look at the white privilege up here.
Govt goons lift TARDis by the ankle and start shaking to make the money fall out.
His pockets are bigger on the inside.
***WILD APPLAUSE!!!***
^^^ LOL.
Klein bottle-shaped pockets?
*sigh*
No, Ted.
There are black & white episodes of Doctor Who…
Not all of us are fans of Mr. Who.
It’s Dr. to you. Show a little respect.
I thought it was Ms. Who
Oh look, another way to buy votes.
Which universities have committed fraud? You don’t suppose it’s those vile, nasty for-profit schools, do you?
My first thought
The traditional colleges and universities know who their enemies are.
And why isn’t the govt clawing back the money from them to cover at least part of the debt?
I’d say every university with Griefer Studies programs commit fraud every day.
Gah! Too much linkage! Does not compute! Thanks, Old Man!
So you’re saying Kamala is a sexually transmitted disease? Sounds about right; does she have a penicillin allergy?
I always feature the wrassler.
For some reason, videos are not working for me anymore. I just see a black rectangle where the YT vid is.
Also, thanks for suffering though DST with us, Old Man.
Works fine in Edge and Chrome. Oh well, time to dump Firefox anyway. I guess Brave is the new choice.
Brave has its own problems. I use Brave with Tampermonkey, and sometimes when I start typing a comment the page just reloads. Also, hitting “Mark comments as read” doesn’t always work.
You may want to try reloading monocle/eyepiece. Sometimes it gets corrupted ( likely bugs in tampermonkey itself, but I haven’t had it happen often enough to bother tracking them down) and a reload plus clearing cookies makes that weirdness go away. I’ve also had a couple times where uninstalling/reinstalling tampermonkey fixes things.
I wouldn’t rule out Brave as the issue, but since they’re built on top of chromium, there’s a certain stability in the core features.
John Ehrlichman apparently ruined millions of lives while not being a sniper in Vietnam.
(Is it Richard Blumenthal’s birthday today?)
Well, do we know that for a fact?
*shrug*
Frank’s music. So complex. I think he put the fart sounds in just to fuck with the Normies. Ironic that such a genius should die from rectal cancer when he spent his entire career calling everyone an asshole. That’s Jean Luc Ponty, isn’t it? What a great tune it is! When the band hit that 70’s peak there was a groove.
Ponty was the warm-up band for Supertramp when I saw that concert in Montreal. I don’t remember much of it because I was drunk for about the second time in my life, it was 1979 and I needed to baby-sit my host. Still have far away photos of the stage. I’ll share them one night.
Aw, Meathead gave us Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride. And a cigarette tax.
Disagree, he Co-opted an already great ensemble cast,
A Mighty wind
Best in show,
etc.
He brought together a bunch of very funny people from Second City and SNL. They made those movies, not him. Rob Reiner can go die in a fire.
Someone turn the flame up to eleven!
Festus! Mindreader!
Not Q
Oboi, nice.
Why do I assume gender studies and race theory students are not covered by the umbrella of academic fraud?
Because it’s never about reality with the commies. It’s about whatever they deem it to be.
No amount of money can un-fuck the damage done there.
Yeah, you can’t parody someone who isn’t listening because their head is so far up their ass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letizia_Bonaparte
“On 24 February 1785, Carlo died of stomach cancer, Letizia became a widow with eight children at the age of 35; Joseph returned to Corsica after finishing his studies at Collège d’Autun, as the oldest is now the head of the family. ”
To think what people complain about now as ‘hardship.’
This fake “Asian hate-crime wave” is starting to piss me off.
If we hate Asians so much, why didn’t the media bring the piles of their dead bodies to our attention during the Trump – you know, the guy who “caused it” – administration?
Andy Ngo haz a sad.
Agreed. It’s pretty frustrating. Just more commie divide and conquer.
The irony is China is literally ethnic cleansing some of their “Asians” right now.
Also Ironic, Uncle joe and the Commies have been shitting on Asians for years now in every boardroom and university. They weren’t the right kind of POC. What changed?
Political expediency.
The realization that Asians leaving are leaving the
plantationinternment camps along with more than a few POC?This.
Asian Voting Demographic:
65 Dem/29 Rep in 2016
61 Dem/34 Rep in 2020
Same here. It’s ridiculous on so many levels.
President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to “swiftly pass” hate crime legislation to address the rise in discrimination and violence against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act aims to increase Justice Department oversight of coronavirus-related hate crimes, provide support for state and local law enforcement agencies, and make hate crime information more accessible to Asian American communities.
” This situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. And we’re just the guys to do it.”
I’m almost speechless at this cynical theater. Just when I thought the Dems had already hit peak shamelessness.
One of these days the top of Biden’s head is going to fall off and a flock of moths will fly out of the chin-stump. CNN will call it a “revelation”.
I think it will look something like this – https://youtu.be/r4QK5l_zhAw
Shamelessness is more of a dip, and there’s bottom to that pit.
…no bottom…
“While we do not yet know motive, as I said last week, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing crisis of gender-based and anti-Asian violence that has long plagued our nation,” Biden said in a statement.
The endorsement also comes a day after a congressional hearing on violence against Asian Americans, the first in 34 years.
Motive? We don’ need no steenkeen motive.
How could this rampant savagery have completely evaded our attention for tree and a half decades?
We don’t yet know motives, but when are you gonna stop hating them?
And women too!
Yay. Saturday.
Fuck Australia.
Are you still mad about the thing with the guns there?
Guns, lockdowns, heavy handed police state, venomous everything, everyone being named Bruce or Sheila, whatever…
It’s not unfashionable to hate on Australians yet.
Fer sure! Always stealing our hot blonde women and wielding knoives…
I liked visiting Australia. I briefly considered expatriating there, then I pulled my head out of my ass.
Australia has stupid gun laws, but despite that there are still plenty of Aussies with guns. I’ve linked studies of how gun ownership in Australia has risen since their gun grabbing laws passed.
A study by advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate released Tuesday recorded 3,795 reports of hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders between March 19, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021.
The incidents include verbal slurs, physical attacks, workplace discrimination and online harassment, among other forms of prejudice. Many of the incidents were reported retroactively from 2020.
The group emphasizes that the tally represents just a fraction of the number of hate incidents experienced by Asian Americans across the country.
Does that include the ones who were turned into newts?
Stop AAPI Hate
Why shouldn’t we hate Google APIs?
Science!
For the soccer fans
In other news, the sky is still falling
Leading infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Friday warned that the COVID-19 variant first documented in the U.K. is a “growing threat” in the U.S.
The U.S. documented its first case of the variant in late December. Since then, “it has been detected in 50 jurisdictions in the United States and likely accounts now for about 20 to 30% of the infections in this country,” Fauci said at a press briefing. “And that number is growing.”
He said the variant results in a 50% increase in transmission over the original strain. It also likely causes more severe COVID-19 disease. He pointed to coronavirus surges in Europe as a warning sign of what could come in the U.S. if the variant continues to spread.
Okay, Chicken Little.
Sure, why not? It’s not like zero evidence of this assertion has arisen or anything.
“likely”
Weasel word for the win
Also, WTF is “COVID-19 disease?
They’re just making shit up now.
They might as well just say “The new variants have a higher cootie coefficient.” It all means absolutely nothing. It’s just words mashed together in the hope that they can continue scaring enough people to play along with the live-action theater, and provide cover for Branch Covidians to keep their tenuous grip on society.
We’ve effectively transitioned into a fully authoritarian society with the support of half of the populace.
All we need now is another terrorist attack and the other half will be back fully onboard as well.
The most charitable interpretation is he or the reporter used too many words.
COVID-19 is the term for the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.
a 50% increase in transmission over the original strain. It also likely causes more severe COVID-19 disease.
Isn’t that not the way mutations normally work?
Shut up, shut up, shut up!
I used to think I was cynical. A year of bald face lies 24/7 has show me that I’m not nearly cynical enough.
A year? Where were you from 2008 to now?
Heh. I was busy stockpiling ammo. Shame that I stored it all on a ⛵.
2001, Suthen. 2001.
Let’s roll it back to the whiskey rebellion. That’s when it all started going off the tracks.
And he knows this because they are testing the DNA in every positive case….or is it, let me guess, computer models?
Quack, quack, quack.
Sorry, RNA
It’s utter bullshit.
If you’re showing any symptoms of the Kung Flu, hospitals are classifying it as such without a test. The CDC protocols allow them to do so. That’s why there are no flu cases. The hospitals have a financial incentive to show them all as COVID, so that’s what they do.
Yep, pretty odd that no one has died from the flu for over a year. Fancy that.
That’s not correct. There are influenza cases being reported. ILInet is the influenza like illnesses measure and that one overlaps with covid (and other causes), but there are several laboratory confirmed surveillance tools, including FluSurv-NET for influenza hospitalizations, and those are well under previous years (like 25% of normal).
I know a guy who sells tests to hospitals and clinics. They now have a combined flu/COVID test available, both in one swab. Nobody wants it. They can’t sell any.
Sure, for the purposes of diagnostics/treatment and reimbursement, there’s not much point. But for laboratory confirmed surveillance, the drop is there while the sample volume is only half of what it was for the participating clinics from the prior year and public health labs are up slightly. There are tests being ran.
When my son was sick a month or so ago, they told me they were gonna test him for Covid. When I asked if he was getting a flu test and she said they didn’t even have any flu tests available.
The entire emphasis is covid.
Yep. As I posted here a couple months ago when the kid had strep or tonsillitis they didn’t even want to bother treating those symptoms and instead insisted that a sore throat with mild fever and white polyps is a clear sign he is a spreader.
Luckily I pestered the doc enough to get a battery of antibiotics and it was cleared up in 12 hours.
That would piss me off.
Time to find another doctor.
No mention that infections and deaths are at a low since all the bullshit started.
My state is below 4% positive test rates. But it’s still the most virus-y virus that’s ever lived, and no way can we think about ending our fucking mask mandate.
About fivee months ago I really started to despise Fauci. There’s not words in the English language to describe how I currently feel about him. He desperately needs to go away.
Yes.
He needs to DIAF.
make hate crime information more accessible to Asian American communities.
Teevee ad campaign:
“Were you, or someone you love,
lynchedmicroaggressed by white supremacists? We can help get you the JUSTICE you deserve. I am a nonattorney spokesperson.”*lights tiki torch*
*Turns up the Taylor Swift and pulls the crayons out of the my little pony backpack*
*shimmies into too tight gimp-suit*
Kinky
Let’s not rush into this
Some teachers are grappling with how to protect students and themselves against the coronavirus in light of new guidelines for returning to in-person classes issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Friday’s announcement relaxes recommendations for social distancing to 3 feet from 6 feet and relies heavily on schools using other measures, including universal masking and contact tracing, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The guidance will be challenging, said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association.
“At first glance, the change to three-feet distance for students in classrooms will be particularly challenging for large urban school districts and those that have not yet had access to the resources necessary to fully implement the very COVID-19 mitigation measures that the CDC says are essential to safe in-person instruction, no matter how far apart students in classrooms are,” she said.
At this point, we should just wait until Foochy has declared the health emergency to be over. That way we can be certain we’ll never have to work again.
The school my children attend (NYC public system) is very excited about this and are planning to use the ‘3 feet’ guidance as an excuse to fully open up for in-school instruction. My son’s 1st grade teacher buttonholed at pickup yesterday and bitched for 10 minutes about how damaging remote school is for the kids and for the teachers. The rank and file here in the UFT want to go back to work.
Iobot! So nice to see you again!
You as well sir. How is the new hire (ShyGirl) working out?
Oh please let the little monsters who live below me go to school. I’ve complained about their constant screaming and thundering around the place. It’s driving me batshit insane.
You live in my attic? https://youtu.be/OhjKNmgsQmM
Demi Moore in her prime.
We’re going to have a generation of kids whose education is even worse than normal.
They might come out smarter for it.
And students under 16 years old are unlikely to be eligible for vaccines for several more months.
“We are so close to being able to ensure that all our schools can be so much safer,” Pringle said. “But as public health officials have rightly cautioned, in the face of new variants and a race to make vaccinations widely available, this is not the time to let down our guard.”
Maybe teachers should be required to have some demonstrable understanding of science (or at least the scientific method), as part of their formalized job qualifications.
They can go get fucked. There is no fucking way I’m letting them perform their vaccine kabuki theater experiments on my kids.
⬅
I took my daughter to the doctor a few days ago for a tummy ache. The rotation doctor (not our usual guy) was very insistent that daughter get a vid test because tummy aches “…could be a symptom”. The nurse, who we see every visit and love, did all of the intake/triage wearing her normal scrubs and a mask around her chin. When she came in to administer the swab up the nose, she was kitted out in a Tyvek suit, plastic face shield, gloves taped to the sleeves of the suit, the whole kabuki costume. Sigh…
This is how you turn a $100 visit into a $1,000 visit.
It’s like every economic problem embodied in one transaction and so many of our fellow citizens fail to see it. I didn’t care about the unnecessary test because it wasn’t costing me anything, a $15 co-pay and insurance deals with the rest. I’m sure however, that on the back end the doc is reaming the insurance co. for as much as he can get, the insurance co. is likely getting some FedGovFunBux to assist with testing for the Vid. It seems, to me anyway, to be a massive misallocation of resources and is likely the reason we can’t have nice things. It’s time to ditch Terra; I want to be mining for crystals and what not out in the void.
$15 co-pay !
WTF is that? I’ve heard of those.
Now that’s some privilege right there.
Wifey is a teacher; that’s the standard NYC employee health insurance. It’s quite good and, along with a generous pension (unless SHTF) provides motivation to stay with the City. Oddly, my dental coverage through a union plan is significantly better than hers through the City.
Ah. Pubsec privilege.
Well that’s just fucked up. Sorry, Man.
It is absolutely fucked up.
We’re performing the rote and unnecessary actions out of fear of retribution from the government or some fuckstick Karen with a lawyer instead of being pragmatic and making rational decisions.
We’re all pussified because the government has our credentials by the short and curlies and can yank away our ability to earn a living on a whim.
“Sounds like we have a non-essential person spouting off here “
I’m relatively immune to most of the BS, but I’m sick and tired of all these idiots who claim to be so empathetic but cannot see what is happening.
So the social science underlying Brown v. Board of Education is likely bogus. If they had just revisited Harlan’s dissent from Plessy.
My son’s 1st grade teacher buttonholed at pickup yesterday and bitched for 10 minutes about how damaging remote school is for the kids and for the teachers. The rank and file here in the UFT want to go back to work.
Not ALL teachers are useless lazy incompetents; good for her.
This is true but the ones from my generation are the squawkiest because they care not one iota about “The Children” but care more for their own pensions and keeping the new hires down, just like every union shop.
I think I’ve told this before.
Company Boss to the assembled union workers:
“I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that we now have machines that can replace every one of you. The good news is that the company is going to make so much profit we can still afford to keep paying you your full wages. Just come in Fridays to get your check.”
Union Steward:
“Do we have to come in every Friday?”
/Former shop steward
Former Employee Rep Jumped up on the turntable and asked the boys if they would like to be employed. Our competitor down the road just went out of business after unionizing. 100 people out of a job because Union assholes wagged their dicks. We had better wages and benefits than the union shop. I got those boys cost of living twice over every year that I represented them. It was a good company and management actually gave a shit. It broke me when I lost that job and my guys.
Let’s ask an expert
While authorities said Atlanta-area spa shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, told investigators he was motivated by “sexual addiction” and claimed he had no racial motivation, health specialists say the explanation falls short.
Capt. Jay Baker, a spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, said Long — who is accused of killing eight people, six of them Asian women — indicated that the spas were “a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.” However, experts say such rationale has been used before in attempts to exonerate white men. The explanation also discounts racial dynamics and can “cause harm” in the way the public understands these issues.
White men have traditionally been given a pass when they say it — and have the privilege of overlooking how race is a factor, experts say.
“Historically, the term ‘sex addiction’ has been used by white males to absolve themselves from personal and legal responsibility for their behaviors,” Apryl Alexander, associate professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver, told NBC Asian America. “It is often used as an excuse to pathologize misogyny.”
What the hell would HE know about why he dunnit? He doesn’t even have a degree in victimology.
So we get to just start making up things, willy-nilly now? Sorry, forgot it was “current fucking year”.
“We don’t care what the evidence says, he’s a fucking white supremacist. We just know it!”
Whatfuckingever. You’re either responsible for your own personal actions or you’re not.
And we just know that incels are always white. Way to ride the “white-is-evil” gravy train you ignorant hack.
Now talk about the sexual prowess of black men.
What a steaming pile of horseshit.
Let’s see how much of a pass he gets by the jury.
Prosecutor: Why did you kill those women, specifically Asian women?
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Ill allow it.
Jury: Guilty
^^^ This
I have a feeling that he’s not about to be absolved from personal and legal responsibility for killing eight people.
AprYl? professional psychology?
Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Yeah, do they also have one for amateurs?
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/03/what-will-travel-look-like-in-the-post-covid-19-world-sandy-fenton.html
Travel will only be available for the rich.
Fucking dystopian. When I was kid you just walked onto the aircraft like you might board a bus or a subway. I went to Mexico in 1988 with no real picture ID at all. What was I gonna do? Get drunk and grope a pilot?
In your heart, you know you wanted to.
You know me too well, TEDS.
Do you like gladiator movies?
Kinda sorta maybe?
In ’86 a Marine buddy got so drunk that me and another guy walked him onto the plane. We told the stewardess that once he sat down, he’d be quiet and sleep all the way to CA. Then we each slung one arm over our shoulders and walked him onto the plane.
None of us were in uniform (but I think we did show them the drunk’s military ID to garner some sympathy).
Imagine something like that happening today.
Much like airport security, that’s for the unclean.
In examining acts of gender-based violence, Alexander said such attacks often occur at the intersection of misogyny, racism, xenophobia and homophobia. She emphasized that contrary to what Long told police, such violence “doesn’t just occur in isolation.”
Richelle Concepcion, president of the Asian American Psychological Association, said accepting the suspect’s rationale in this case erases several colliding dynamics of class, immigration status and gender that impact the communities most at risk for physical and sexual violence.
“Quite frankly, it’s really difficult to attribute the atrocious behaviors to an addiction, especially when you look at the demographics of a majority of those who were murdered,” she said. “Race and gender do play a role in this.”
“It’s really unfair to take his word as there is intersectionality that exists pertaining to the lives taken, especially when one considers that the suspect claims to have gone to these businesses with the intention of eliminating the threat of temptation,” Concepcion added.
I find my model presents the appearance of being much more robust and predictive if I discard any contradictory inputs.
Notice how everything is a reflection of society? intersectionality has become their rallying cry for studies and funding when in reality they’re just a bunch of incompetent hacks that will never achieve anything but bloviation.
Whatever happened to the “said without evidence” trope? Oh yeah, never mind.
Disc Golf everyday, as well as a new disc store opening, Poodle and I shall investigate Ludington Bay Brewery for lunch and a flight,
Have a Great Day, Glibbies!
Morning Yu. Who is this Poodle?
You are the governor of the state. Your state accountants just told you that despite the pandemic, there is still a projected surplus. On top of that, the Feds just threw so much money at you, that you have no idea what to do with it. What do you do?
You raise taxes on the “rich”
I am so excited to “improve” our ranking.
Fuck this guy.
Snuff tax? What kind of film industry do you have there?
Look you want less of it – you tax it. Makes sense, no?
I assumed that was going to be about New York, because it’s the exact same situation.
“Progressive” means “good”, right?
Someone is a shit lord extraordinaire.
https://fb.watch/4lKcmfr2bY/
Foremost authority
Sen. Rand Paul is “dead wrong” with his skepticism of continued mask-wearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday, extending the pair’s long-simmering feud that boiled over during congressional testimony a day earlier.
“Senator Paul has this message that we don’t need masks, which goes against just about everything we know about how to prevent the spread of the virus,” Fauci told “CBS This Morning,” accusing the Kentucky Republican of “quoting literature selectively and leaving out important studies.”
“I don’t have anything personally against him. But he’s just, quite frankly, incorrect,” Fauci said.
——-
Paul, an ophthalmologist with no expertise in epidemiology, also described Fauci as “such a government worry-wart” and predicted that “ultimately, the government bureaucrats like Fauci will lose” because “people are already pushing back.”
Take that, Senator Crazypants!
What, specifically, does Foochy do, aside from shuffling papers and laboring diligently to increase the budget and grasp of his bureaucracy (and propagandizing on the teevee)?
TMITE
Uh…your own studies show that it (masks) had negligible impact in reducing the spread.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-cdcs-mask-mandate-study-debunked/
I’ve been reassured by SCIENCE! that “the results are statistically significant.”
We always are obsessed with the 1%.
I don’t like to be “that guy”, but I do think we should be accurate.
The study doesn’t show masks as ineffective.
It shows that mask mandates were statistically ineffective.
Ultimately it’s probably the same thing, but I do think accuracy when engaging arguments is important.
Ultimately it’s probably the same thing, but I do think accuracy when engaging arguments is important.
It is accurate to say statistically ineffective = ineffective. In medical journals, we are supposed to interpret as “no difference between groups” when there is no statistical difference. To say anything other than “no difference” is disingenuous and a credible journal editor/reviewer should catch and shred that immediately.
The study doesn’t show masks as ineffective.
It shows that mask mandates were statistically ineffective.
Fair enough. Of course, there were already a bunch of clinical trials showing that the masks themselves are ineffective (both pre and post COVID).
Fair enough. Your own studies can’t prove the effectiveness to any point of accuracy that should lead you to say “goes against just about everything we know about how to prevent the spread of the virus”.
Correct.
Their own shit tells them it’s ineffective, and we’re not supposed to believe our lying eyes.
Foochy is arguing against something Paul didn’t even say.
He didn’t argue that all masks were stupid (though he probably does think this, if I had to guess), he said that telling people to wear masks even after they’ve received vaccination is bullshit.
And Paul absolutely right.
If you have to wear a mask even after vaccination, what’s the fucking point of vaccination?
This is the argument Paul was trying to drive home. You can’t bitch and complain about people not getting their vaccine if the message is that getting a vaccine means still living life as if you hadn’t.
This is just Foochy trying to eat his cake and have it too.
Yep. Trashy’s TMITE and a press that can’t bother to perform an interview with at least a bit of push back has led us to this point.
The fact that, despite Rand pointing to studies that back up his position, PolitiHo decides to paint him as pushing an ad hominim attack, shows their desire to push leftist propaganda. Funny that Rand gets the “with no expertise in epidemiology” disclaimer, but Dr. Fonzie doesnt.
The fuck are you talking about, dude?
Foochy has shoveled so much paperwork for the federal medicine bureaucracy that he knows fucking everything.
He learns by osmosis.
Nevermind that he’s never practiced medicine. He’s a fucking EXPERT™️.
TMITE
If it saves just one grandma, it will be worth the degradation and the destroying our economy.
Paul, an ophthalmologist with no expertise in epidemiology
Does Fauci?
I’m really hoping that this is going to go the same way as the last argument that Rand and Fauxchi got into last summer. Back then Rand was arguing with Health Elf at another Senate hearing over kids not being spreaders and that it was safe to open schools. About six weeks later Health Elf took Rand’s position. Of course he didn’t admit that Rand was right, just that “the science had now changed to show it was safe”.
Omwc,
I think I am pkaying your son on chess.com. I got two challenges, am pkaying both. One is Don, the other is an unknown username, so guessing it was him.
If the initials are H-P, that’s him.
Your son is Harry Potter?
Insurrectionist plotters
Later that day, an individual identified in court documents only as an unindicted co-conspirator posted: “[W]e had originally planned on breaking the guys into teams. Let’s start divvying them up and getting baofeng channels picked out,” referring to channels on handheld radios.
The following day, the indictment says, a new encrypted messaging channel called “Boots on the Ground” was set up for Proud Boys in Washington. Some 60 people were in the channel, including the four defendants, prosecutors say.
That evening, Biggs posted a message to the channel that said he was trying to get a sense of their numbers so they can “go over tomorrow’s plan.”
aka “FBI infiltrator”
They had a plan. A PLAN, I tell you! We were mere seconds away from the Fourth Reich.
LOL… “unindicted co-conspirator”
Is that the same fellow who rented the truck for Tim McVeigh?
So large organizations aren’t supposed to have ‘plans’ when attending protests or speeches in large cities with huge crowds?
THEY USED CHINESE MADE RADIOS!!!!!1111++=!!!$$$i8u889polikjasdf098wu235489703495ityr08juhqw2384re!!!!!!!
Unindicted Co-Conspirator = Anonymous source.
It’s fucking useless.
The indictment alleges that the members of the encrypted messaging channels were told to meet at the Washington Monument at 10 a.m. on Jan. 6.
Proud Boys did show up at the monument at 10, including the defendants, according to the indictment. From there, the group marched to the Capitol with Nordean, Biggs and Rehl near or at the front of the crowd.
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The indictment alleges that the defendants then celebrated the events of Jan. 6 later on social media and in their encrypted chats.
The Proud Boys are not the only extremist group to see its members charged with conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. Members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, are also facing conspiracy charges.
So far, more than 300 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol breach. Prosecutors say at least 100 more could still be charged.
MUH SACRED TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY!
This is what they are really going after: “encrypted messaging channels”
Uh-oh.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
LEOs and soldiers who refuse to follow unconstitutional orders are “far-right.”
Fuck. Off.
Those guys won’t be down when it’s egg breaking time, and we just can’t have that.
Inconvenient oaths – we want people loyal to OUR commands.
Biden has his first meeting with another world leader
I laughed out loud with that.
It sucked to see the leader of the free world fail upward, yet again. *clown whistle*
https://practicalselfreliance.com/planting-apple-seeds/
We are all Texas now
I’m going to guess that Biden will be flying these fun new Americans to the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesoda and Wisconsin. No way he’d dump them in NY or anywhere else in New England where they might offend some important media type.
Tee hee, Star Wars described by someone who has not yet seen it.
She’s adorable, female, young and I SWEAR she’s not me.
Good news, everyone!
Gun sales in the United States reached a record level last year, with the biggest increases in background checks for firearms overlapping with months of social and political unrest, according to industry and government data.
Industry data and firearms background checks show nearly 23 million guns were purchased in 2020, according to Small Arms Analytics, a consulting firm based in Greenville, South Carolina.
That’s a 65% increase compared with 2019, when 13.9 million guns were sold, according to Small Arms Analytics.
Since there is no national gun registry, firearms industry publications and background checks are the best sources for gauging sales.
FBI background checks on gun buyers increased all year, but the biggest jumps — March, June, July and December — overlapped with periods of political and social unrest. Background checks don’t correlate directly to the number of guns sold.
CNN haz a concern.
I wonder if it has occurred to them that many of those people (especially first time buyers) have explicitly abandoned the expectation that the government will protect them or their property when the mostly peaceful protestors establish an autonomous zone in their neighborhood.
No they don’t wonder that, they wonder how many militia groups are stockpiling for their next coup attempt or their next Asian purge.
I doubt it.
I also doubt that it’s occurred to them that even people who are only newly armed won’t take kindly to government trying to disarm them. They bought a gun for a reason. I don’t think those people will suddenly think they don’t need them because government says so.
“Since there is no national gun registry”
Anyone who thinks ATF purges it’s NICS data is, well, naive.
Dabney Evans is worried about numbers of a different kind: homicides, suicides and injuries. An associate professor of global health at Emory University, she says studies show that more guns mean more deaths and injuries resulting from them.
“If we look at the global picture, we know that we have much more higher rates of gun ownership in the US than in other countries, and we also know that we have even higher rates of violence and unintentional injuries due to gun ownership,” Evans said.
Evans says if people want to arm themselves, these days the best way would be to wear a mask, wash your hands and get a vaccine.
Hey, look over there.
“Dabney”
Color by numbers journalism. Find somebody to agree with you. Hype them up as an expert. State their kooky assertions uncritically.
Emory Univ – then home of disgraced polemicist Bellesiles. That whole place stinks of political correctness (and has for years).
Have some juicy melons with your breakfast on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.li/EcBY1
#9 has face diapers on her breasts. Blech.
That’s fine, #1 posts on reddit. No face diapers in her submissions that I can see.
The Bee Wins Again: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMiHtAHHg5b/?igshid=1m5bii4u9v7ll
TIL Fredric’s middle name was Ignatz. That’s Krazy.
I never got Krazy Kat. Was I supposed to be bombed on acid?
A mouse throws a brick at a cat. What’s not to ‘get’?
Inefficiencies were detected
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office quietly signed a settlement agreement in federal court admitting his agency’s gun-registration website was so poorly designed that potentially thousands of Californians were unable to register their assault weapons and comply with state law.
Under the terms of the settlement filed Wednesday in U.S. Eastern District Court in Sacramento, the state Department of Justice is required to notify each district attorney and law enforcement agency to put on hold “all pending investigations and prosecutions” for those suspected of failing to register their assault weapons.
The settlement agreement is a major setback for one of California’s signature pieces of gun control legislation. It comes 11 months after a federal judge said the state’s newly implemented online ammunition background-check program was so glitchy that tens of thousands of otherwise legal firearms owners were barred from buying ammunition — in violation of their 2nd Amendment rights.
The settlement, which still needs to be approved by a federal judge, was filed the day before the U.S. Senate voted to approve Becerra as the new secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Agency. The Senate approved his nomination 50-49 on Thursday, with only one Republican voting to confirm him.
The problems with California’s gun-registration website didn’t come up during the confirmation hearings, but critics say they should have. Becerra is now running an agency responsible for monitoring the nation’s healthcare system and tracking its healthcare data.
Purely unintentional deficiencies in an otherwise valuable and necessary system. It’s not like any important people (or rights) were affected.
Feature, not bug.
“The problems with California’s gun-registration website didn’t come up during the confirmation hearings, but critics say they should have.”
Is there some kind of valuable Cuck of the Year Award which Republicans are competing for?
The study doesn’t show masks as ineffective.
It shows that mask mandates were statistically ineffective.
There isn’t even a discernible correlation, much less implication of causal relationship, between mask mandates and infection rates or deaths.
Mask mandates have done exactly dick in terms of slowing/stopping transmission.
But they’re the most important tool in the box, apparently.
Everything is Doublethink these days.
Its not George Bush
Also…not George Bush
The move comes days after a shooting spree in Georgia that killed eight people, including six Asian women. The president and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to meet with Asian American leaders in Atlanta on Friday.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
In a new streamlining process, borrowers who have approved claims that confirm their college or institution defrauded them or engaged in financial misconduct will be able to apply for full relief.
Officials estimate that this could help about 72,000 borrowers receive $1 billion in loan cancellation.
“Streamlining process”. Let me guess: An accusation is proof?
A federal government spokeswoman says while pests are “primarily the responsibility of state and territory governments”, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has so far granted one emergency zinc phosphide permit to Cotton Australia and is assessing two more.
I see why Australia has a problem with mice.
That’s not what we had in mind
Al Tawil, owner of Towers Armory, a gun store and range in Oregon, Ohio, said that his weekly sales jumped by about 20% right after mid-April 2020, when many Americans received the first $1,200 stimulus payments from the federal government. He has every reason to believe it will happen again.
“We’re expecting another big sale when the stimulus comes out,” he said. “They’ve got the extra money and people go indulge themselves with something they can’t normally afford. Some people want a car. Some people want a gun.”
He said that customers generally want semiautomatic pistols for self-protection and they sell out quickly — popular brands like Taurus, Sig Sauer and especially Glock are tough to keep in stock. He said that AR-15s are also sought out because they’re targeted by President Biden’s gun control plan. Ammunition is hard to come by, because demand has outstripped supply.
You’re supposed to spend that free money on systemic racism lectures. And avocado toast.
^Wife and I picked up our CZ Scorpions yesterday. Probably spent half as much again on upgrades that are trickling in this week. Definitely luxury items we wouldn’t have gotten without the stimulus. Makes especially happy to spend part of it this way.
I just got my M&P 15-22 and am contemplating some upgrades for it. Won’t be using stim funds (they’re earmarked for a minivan), but I’m spending more on firearms in a month now than I was spending in a year in 2019.
Powerline blog Geek in Pictures
Powerline blog week in pictures
Dropping out, Friends. I’m about as me as I ever am. See you tonight.
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https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/before-killing-spree-georgia-let-an-industry-that-fetishizes-asian-women-flourish/O2KAW7XBYFB2FBXIUF3ML33JXU/
“While the exact services offered at the spas that were attacked are not clear, last week the eyes of the world fell on this often-ignored segment of Atlanta’s “adult entertainment” industry. Despite more than a decade of trying, Georgia has failed to rein in certain illicit massage businesses that hypersexualize and commodify women.”
““There were Asian women shot and murdered and enslaved,” Woojin Kang,”
Can I stand around all day and finger bang women for money? Is that a thing? Can we make that a thing… for you know… equality? Would that make me one of those coveted ‘sex slaves?’
Are we still pretending women should have all the rights but still be a protected class with no agency?
“White men should stick with their own kind.”
I can’t believe you guys were still talking at 5:30am.
It was 10pm PST when the hockey game ended and my wife asked if I was going to go talk with my friends. I said nah, its probably just people watching someone work…apparently not!
It’s somehow appropriate that the conjuring of $1B from thin air was performed by the Dept of Education.
If that’s what America teaches for arithmetic, it would explain a lot.
It’s good that Biden is pushing hate crime legislation. I always commit my violent crimes from a place of love and understanding, so I’m assuming my punishment will be decreased in magnitude accordingly.
Sorry, if you love your date so much that you carve them up to save some for later, you’ll still get charged with a hate crime.
Mask mandates have done exactly dick in terms of slowing/stopping transmission.
But they’re the most important tool in the box, apparently.
Everything is Doublethink these days.
There was an article the other day about “how much we have learned” in the past year about fighting this dread affliction.
One of the primary claims was about masks. Once we figured out the effectiveness of
medical masksrandom scraps of cloth, applied in a completely haphazard way, we really started to get a handle on things.This mammoth hanging softball was allowed to pass over the plate completely unmolested.
“Masks were the real turning point.”
“So the numbers totally crashed when the mask mandates were put into force?”
“Well, not exactly.”
But hospitalizations and deaths declined noticeably, right?”
“Welllll… no.”
Some of the more honest “experts” are already admitting that the continuing demands to degrade ourselves are theater but we still need to “set an example”. I expect the entire lot of them to grasp at this eventually, but I don’t know how long they think they can get away with it unless they ramp up the police state to “make it happen”.
I’d like to see some other theater for these “leaders” – something in the grand guignol tradition.
So in the latest recall news for Guv Greasy Gav, it looks like the Cal Secretary of State has just verified that out of 1.4 million signatures examined so far that 1.2 million are valid. They got 2.1 million and need 1.495. The recall is going to a vote, let the massive Dem spending campaign begin.
Ouch – open up your wallets. You’re paying for it.
I can’t think of anything I’d rather spend it on. I’d love to see the recall succeed and get someone (marginally) better, but mostly I view it as kicking his ass to move along reopening the state. They don’t want this election to happen when things are still in full Rona panic.
Wait…if (((you))) didn’t invent Daylight Savings Time, who did? The Illuminati, I suppose. They’re always up for anything.
Just think of it as everyone getting railroaded at the same time.
“The Illuminati — ruling the world from a bunker in Tibet since 208 B.C.!”
Stoopit NoVA traffic. No Gourmeltz for me today.
Georgia has failed to rein in certain illicit massage businesses that hypersexualize and commodify women.
“Hypersexualize”?
Oh, right. Victorian prudery is perfectly acceptable when employed in service of the politically useful narrative.
Heaven knows, I never preferred the company of a woman who enthusiastically embraced and enjoyed her sexuality. How frightful.
Right??? Terrorizing, even!
Well, as a male, we’re supposed to hate ourselves according to all good-thinkers, especially about sex.
“Victorian prudery”
On the other hand, there were plenty of large Victorian families, someone was doing It.
They’re pubic affairs, not public affairs.
Got the quote and got the green foldy money together to have my favorite (but dying) tree of ours taken down Monday (plus some other problematic limbs.) I’m gonna miss that tulip poplar. I hope the one in the back yard lasts for at least a few years longer. 🙁
As q-ette is now 1 month old, I figure I can give an update on the state of the fam.
q-ette is doing well, in spite of turning into a ginger and being fairly colicky. Mrs. Q is blonde and my FIL is a ginger so it was always in the cards, I just expected my (((swarthiness))) to overcome it. The past month has not been good to me GlibFit-wise. Too much takeout and no exercise is not good for my cum gutters; I will be heading to the gym today for the first time since q-ette’s appearance. I’m prepared for it to be ugly. Mrs. Q OTOH is recovering like a photoshopped celebrity. She’s only 3 pounds off the prepreg weight and can already fit in all her clothes. Due to the complications of q-ette’s first week on Earth, Mrs. Q didn’t have a chance to prime the udders nor did she feel like pumping and dumping every 3 hours as was recommended so we’re formula feeding. The upshot of this is that the milk is already gone yet the size and lack of sagginess have stayed. The reward (for both of us) of the hell we went through at the beginning is an apparently permanent extra cup size. Too bad Mrs. Q’s business end is, again due to the complicated beginnings, out of commission for likely at least another 2 months.
Need a distraction from the dumpster fire that is Dementia Joe and Fabulous Foochy? Git yerself a colicky newborn! You will no longer give two shits about the assholes in DC. Hell, you wouldn’t care if your cat shit on one of the dining room chairs, you’ll just want to sleep. Life is unironically good.
Mazel tov!!! 😀
you’ll just want to sleep
This too shall pass.
Glad that everybody is doing well. In a few months, q-ette will be on enough of a semblance of a schedule that yall will feel like humans again.
It’s good to hear everyone is doing well.
https://babylonbee.com/video/35
For Q