March here in Arizona is the first month of Endless Summer. Burn-intensity sun, temperatures pushing 90°, and I’m already starting my seasonal complaining.
Speaking of complaining, for work purposes, I sat through an hour long Zoom yesterday entitled “Building Energy Efficiency Policy under the Biden Administration” presented by (I kid you not) the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Nothing left to cut! She of course had a hyphenated name, always a warning sign. In that hour, she managed to hit every single cliché multiple times: climate crisis, environmental justice, communities of color, equity and inclusion, diversity… there were of course numerical quotas, errrr, goals directing where the money was going to be flushed down the toilet spent invested. And the term “good paying union jobs” kept coming up. When she was asked an question actually about energy efficiency in buildings, she got the confused panic look so familiar to anyone who has seen President Pudding Cup in action. If it weren’t for the fact that my company name and professional affiliation were shown under my picture, I would have thrown some pointed questions out there relating to constitutional justifications for the existence of her job, her actual knowledge of climate and energy, her support of discriminatory programs, the role of regulatory capture, and the role of unions in campaign contribution. And likely referenced the famous Milton Friedman road-building story. Failing to get a substantive answer, I’d then pivot to the always useful, “Show us your tits!” Or maybe ask how transgender people are accounted for in this policy.
I won’t complain about birthdays, though, because the honorees today include a guy who didn’t need two coats on the ceiling; a guy with a nose as big as mine; a guy who was a fringe character; some chick who wrote poems instead of designing weapons; a guy who DID design weapons; a guy who sang the blues; the poor man’s Curly Howard; a guy with a lot of spirit; a guy who taught me what an octave was; a guy with really shitty taste in women; the most delightful and quotable mayor ever; a pretty fair guitarist; and a study in contrasts with the stupidest guy on TV and one of the smartest guys on TV. There’s some baseball guys, too, but I’ll leave that to robc.
On to news.
I give us one year before we’re doing this too.
People are SHOCKED that New Yorkers are rude assholes.
Old Guy Music today honors one of the birthday boys. Brilliant song, amazing chords.
“March here in Arizona is the first month of Endless Summer. Burn-intensity sun, temperatures pushing 90°, and I’m already starting my seasonal complaining.”
Aren’t you desert people?
I think it’s only for 40 years, then it’s milk and honey.
But don’t you get all the manna you want for those 40 years?
Who’s mama are they getting, though? Winston’s?
“I’d then pivot to the always useful, “Show us your tits!” ”
I’d save that one for your Senator.
“ Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy”
Kafka is laughing at us from beyond the grave.
Will that even fit on a business card?
Yes: Top Womxn!
“The mayor is safe and no foul play is suspected,” OPD Officer Phil Anson said in an email.
So you are saying he knew something about the Clintons?
From the Biden in the Basement link:
“The volume has been turned so low in the Biden White House that they need to worry about whether anyone is listening,” said Frank Sesno, former head of George Washington University’s school of media.
Narrator: No one is listening.
“Recalling both Biden’s largely leak-free campaign and the buttoned-up Obama administration, the new White House team has carefully managed the president’s appearances, trying to lower the temperature from Donald Trump’s Washington and to save a big media moment to mark what could soon be a signature accomplishment: passage of the COVID-19 bill.”
or… he’s a senile asshole who managed to fortify his way into a presidency and no one wants to let him in front of a camera let alone let him answer questions.
“Wait! What just happened? I like questions! Do your balls hang low, do you swing them to and fro… Come on, Man!”
“Recalling both Biden’s largely leak-free campaign and the buttoned-up Obama administration, the new White House team has carefully managed the president’s appearances, trying to lower the temperature from Donald Trump’s Washington and to save a big media moment to mark what could soon be a signature accomplishment: passage of the COVID-19 bill.”
Wait, I thought Obama was the most transparent administration ever?
“The message control may serve the president’s purposes but it denies the media opportunities to directly press Biden on major policy issues and to engage in the kind of back-and-forth that can draw out information and thoughts that go beyond the administration’s curated talking points. ”
Maybe you should have thought about that while he was running for office.
Feature, not bug.
Information and thoughts?
There is no there there. Not to mention, is the argument that the media has some independent function and not merely a conduit to the public for whatever message the Democrats care to put out?
Bwahahahaha
No, it was the most scandal free administration ever.
Nice hats, shame about the tits.
How did that senile old goat even win the nomination is my question. There were about 20 other candidates all of whom weren’t in obvious cognitive decline other than espousing progressive ideas.
The fix was in. As I remember he got almost no support in the first couple states and then suddenly became unstoppable.
Most extensive and inclusive voter fraud ever!
The top men that “fortified” our election decided he would be the easiest to control come the chaos of election fortification not being bought by the people that are not morons…
He was a throwaway. They didn’t think they had a chance before the ‘Vid hit, and didn’t want somebody with a possible future to lose.
The Dem party establishment did in ’20 what the Repubs couldn’t do in ’16 – coalesce around a party regular to shut out the outsider.
Duh duh duh, dut, da da – Superdelegates!
And there it is – the only reason this is a “news” item.
Yes, hateful people reach for the handiest insult their little minds can come with. That doesn’t make any of this rise to the level of international news or more calls for another damn “national conversation”.
Trump’s fault.
He’s in the rear view mirror. Dem’s are reading the side mirror right now. Fascists may seem closer than they appear. “Drive faster Daddy!” says every moron.
Must go faster!
https://youtu.be/rxqHVoZ0fzc
^
What a world we live in that this is what makes national news as an example of racism. Some lady who is probably severely bipolar freaking out in a parking lot. Ghengis Khan would probably get a pretty good laugh at our world today.
That stuff like this is what makes the news should be the exception that proves the rule. That racism (at least in the way they’re trying to portray it) is so rare that mundane examples are turned in to National stories because racism, or at least overtly racist acts, are essentially a non-problem. A fucking rounding error.
So does this mean this Cleveland area judge was actually a New Yorker:
Groups demand Lake County judge in Ohio apologize for calling coronavirus ‘China Virus’ in bar association newsletter
We “used to” name viruses after the point of origin, but when Trump did it, we realized that it’s racist.
She seemed trans-tolerant with the “get off my dick” and “suck my big dick” rants. So she’s got that going for her.
That tune was nearly Captianish. I still don’t love Joni but that was pretty damn cool.
The jazz period she went through was my favorite Joni.
I’m mostly unfamiliar with that but I might be won over.
Mingus
Mingus the Merciless!
Michigan area ska/jazz band that released one album, and did mainly instrumental songs. Really amazing to watch live as they were damned skilled.
I turned down an opportunity to get the vax, myself, Wednesday. I’m not really afraid of getting Captain Tripp’s and I feel like the shots should go to people who are, and should be. Like 65 and older people. Anyway, I really don’t like the idea of slamming some shit that’s never been tried before and was rushed together because of an irrational panic. I might be willing to try the Johnson and Johnson version, although I prefer to mostly keep my johnson away from other johnsons. At least it’s based on tried and true concepts.
No sword-play at the Glib-meet? Yeah, they can shove the vaccines straight up their own bungholes. Fuck that shit.
I thought it was interesting that after my hospital texted me that I’m now “eligible” and I looked at their website, it said something about obtaining a card to prove your compliance.
And by interesting, I mean terrifying.
it said something about obtaining a card to prove your compliance.
There are commenters on this article talking about laminating their vaccines cards and putting on a neck lanyard as their “official credentials” for entering businesses. It’s insane.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-you-can-and-cant-do-if-youve-been-vaccinated-travel-gatherings-risk-factors-what-you-need-to-know-11614978343
The article itself is incredibly disturbing. These people worship at the altar of fear.
These people worship at the altar of fear.
And they have all the love for infidels that most fundamentalists do. Convert or die!
I will not wear the ribbon.
I’m watching Seinfeld right now.
Excellent. If anyone here gets vaccinated, would you take some high-resolution color photos of the card and post them here? Thanks in advance!
Meh, a decent version will prolly sell for 5 bucks down at Macarthur park. Picture and everything!
Hell, laminating machines aren’t that dear.
Yeah, but I’m a DIY kind of guy.
Just don’t go after dark
No picture on the card. Just a CDC logo on cheap stock with places for name, vaccine, and dates. It is slightly larger than a credit card. Any 8th grader with a two sided copier can make them by the dozen at home.
The latest trial for the Johnson and Johnson vaccine had 7 Covid-related deaths in the placebo group of 22,000 participants versus 0 deaths in the vax group of 22,000. I take this to be much closer to to true population death rate since the deaths aren’t being inflated for political reasons. Highly dangerous for elderly nursing home residents but effectively zero risk for the general population.
Might as well inject sugar water unless if you are over 70 or have a chronic respiratory disease.
Am I the only one seeing Ben Shapiro in that picture?
Which person?
Fourth from the left.
I’m still recovering from that infuriating meeting.
“So these new proposed regs to reduce greenhouse gases in our products, you realize that significantly reduces energy efficiency? How do you square that with your stated goals? Are you guys completely focused on corporate lobbying and PR or do you want to actually increase energy efficiency?” Then out loud I said, “Oh, this is useful information, thank you,” since they could shut us down if they got a bug up their asses (Maryland is already trying to).
The nice folks in Glibs Zoom at least calmed me down a bit….
Yesterday, on my drive home, Bongino was comparing ESG reports to China’s social credit scheme.
I’ve done that twice in the last couple of months. Calling out the bullshit, I mean. Both times led to personal calls on my phone and both led to abject apologies.
Yes. No.
You’re welcome.
Our newest corporate compliance officer flexed her new-found wings last week. She got shot down like a Stuka over Dover. It was immensely gratifying.
“Turner Classic Movies will hold a full roundtable discussion at the start of several of old Hollywood’s most celebrated films to warn viewers about ‘sexist and racist content’ – prompting major mixed reaction from fans, with some slamming ‘sick’ cancel culture.
On Thursday, the cable network kicked off Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror, a series where it says it examines the ‘troubling and problematic’ aspects of the classics, which were released from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Among the 18 flicks under the microscope include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Psycho, Gone With the Wind, My Fair Lady, Stagecoach, The Jazz Singer, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and more. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9330825/TCM-examine-18-problematic-classic-movies-new-series.html
In a a shocking revelation, people will learn that slavery was bad.
I take it the discussion for Psycho will focus on the failure to treat mental illness?
I think it’s “Not all transvestites are murderers!”
It was degrading to portray a real woman™ calling herself “Norman” and dressing in m-n’s clothes.
My guess is transphobia, and the showing of transgendered individuals as knife crazy psychos. You know… instead of just saying Norman Bates is insane, and shouldn’t be held up as an icon of any community.
See also Sleepaway Camp.
Yeah I can see I really lacked the requisite wokeness imagination here. It was the rejection by society of his inner truth that led to the tragic circumstances.
I watched Psycho a few weeks ago and I had to lie in bed catatonic for a week to recover from the shockingly offensive material.
You saw Anne Heche’s asshole?
“Glenn Greenwald calls Joy Reid ‘bats*** crazy’ for claiming Sen. Ron Johnson is a ‘Russian agent’ a day after the MSNBC host said conservatives would ‘trade tax cuts to be able to say the n-word’
‘This – ‘Ron Johnson, Senator from Wisconsin, by way of Moscow’ — is as bats*** crazy and as much conspiratorial derangement as anything from QAnon, and far more damaging since it’s mainstream, but because it’s on a corporate outlet, it doesn’t count,’ Greenwald tweeted on Friday morning.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9332357/Glenn-Greenwald-calls-MSNBC-Joy-Reid-called-Sen-Ron-Johnson-Russian-agent-bats-crazy.html
She’ll just say her mouth was hacked.
She’s either a cynical lying psychopath or a nutbar, maybe both.
a high of 34? sure Summers here Old Man, but Glenn Greenwald is a changed man, this is good,
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-the-insurrection-narrative-crumbles
He’s been that way for as long as I can remember.
I used to joust with him in the long, long ago. He wasn’t the 1st amendment absolutist that he seems to be now. Good for him, growing a pair.
“This is how apocalyptic cult leaders always function. When the end of the world did not materialize on January 6, Collins insisted that January 20 was the day of the violent reckoning. When nothing happened on that day, he moved the Doomsday Date to March 4. The flock cannot remain in a state of confusion for too long about why the world has not ended as promised by the prophet, so a new date must quickly be provided with an explanation for why this is serious business this time.”
Didn’t I hear that QAnon rescheduled the next coup from Mar. 4 to the 20th?
Four Twenty.
*sparks up under the deck*
“Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie . . . “
Four and twenty
Great song from a great album – oh how she confounded most of her fans at the time.
Her voice frequency is too high for my old ears. If I could only separate out the words. Great song by a great lady.
If only I was a Twoscore again.
I almost like this version better, because her voice and emotions, are so different from her youthful self.
I saw that one and thought hard about it. Yeah, it’s very very different, and really excellent. But… the agility of her younger voice was just so captivating.
I enjoyed that one too, listening pleasure for me.
“Trump slams Biden for ‘spiraling tsunami’ of migrants and border agents reveal they detained nearly 100,000 in February: The highest tally for the month since 2006”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9332059/Trump-slams-Biden-spiraling-tsunami-migrants-border-disrespecting-ICE.html
Republicans pounce?
It’s not a crisis, it’s a “challenge!”
Republicans stumble, more like.
*sad trombone*
Trump can slam him all he wants, the Dems are going to lock in their forever reign over the USA with all of these freshly minted voters. Texas is going blue and we’re all mostly fucked.
HR1 never makes it through the Senate.
It doesn’t really matter. They succeeded once and they will forever chase that dragon.
Junkies chasing a high doesn’t mean they’ll rule for ever. FFS, look at the state results – they were crushed when they really expected a blue wave. Everyone is so goddam obsessed with the mother fucking presidency.
You make a good point but in the days before the Imperial Presidency it would have been a better point.
Yep. They are changing the rules.
Trump was a great argument against the Imperial Presidency, Biden an even better one. I don’t take it as either inevitable or irredeemable. Although it will surely be both with resigned acceptance of it.
I’d be interested to hear what Trump did that made him a “great argument against an imperial presidency”.
Less about what he did, than the cult of personality supporting him. I hated that with Obama and I hated it with Trump.
If anything with Trump, the Imperial Presidency was shown to be a hollow thing – he couldn’t control the parts of the govt the President is unquestionably in control of. Same with Biden – okay, he called off a second drone/missile strike in Syria because of women/children; then who gave the orders in the first place?
he couldn’t control the parts of the govt the President is unquestionably in control of.
Yep, and that proves this government is illegitimate and we all need to stop paying taxes.
There is no ‘going back to normal’ after 2020. There was no blue wave, there was never going to be a blue wave. Yet the Dems still control both houses and the presidency. It took a pandemic, the entire corporate media, silicon valley, a ridiculous amount of blatant fraud, massive censorship, a lot of partisan judge head turning and who knows what other ‘fortification.’
The masks are off. Pandora isn’t going back into the box. The tyrants have won. Tyranny is fine and dandy as long as it’s quasi-government or to save the children or to stop them racists or domestic terrorists.
There is no slippery slope anymore, we’re off the cliff and into the abyss at this point. Moral hazard is for the history books.
The President of the United States is an 80 year old man with dementia or Alzheimer’s. I don’t even want to get into the VP.
I think you need to be able to give her more power to do that.
We will see in the ’22 midterms. If it goes as I expect I will try to be less annoying about it than Bro’ x Hypebole, but I make no promises.
People that comment how this doesn’t last forever ignore the fact that while it lasts, million suffer. Communism, despite the fact some absolutely insane and stupid people still pretend it can be made to work as it advertises, killed over 120 million (low estimate) and put billions of people in hell on earth. It took 75 years for the USSR to implode. I would prefer this shit the corruptocrat class hell bent on keeping power for the eleite and forcing the rubes to accept their globalist vision not have a chance to last at all, cause I don’t want to wait 75-100 years, if we are lucky that humanity ends up destroyed, for people to be destitute and because they are enslaved rise up finally cause there is just nothing to lose.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1367857263193452546
Own goal?
Yes.
The comments are interesting, I thought the outsized crime stats for, um, certain populations were common knowledge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-dismisses-sanctuary-city-cases-request-bidens-doj
“Sanctuary cities” a shitshow all of the way down.
I wonder how “sanctuary residences” would go over. Maybe “Sanctuary States?”
Good, now do sanctuary states for gun laws.
Sanctuary?
it’s 32 and Sunny, fuck this, I’m going Golfing,
Cheers Glibbies!
Enjoy. Do you get those nice strong winds off the lake to mess up your game?
Speaking of Lugers, if you think having a gold pated one is tacky, they were made in platinum TW: Nazis.
Heh. I have a similar YouTube feed and I’m not even a gun guy, I just think that they’re cool. Mark Felton shows up a lot. Lindy Beige as well.
Felton’s awesome, best war documentaries on the interwebs.
Gun Jesus is always there.
Good thing I called first, Oscar’s didn’t have any spiral sliced hams. They’ll have a couple for me tomorrow.
Rat: your question from yesterday afternoon, the Pi kernel doesn’t include SATA drivers by default. The guy rebuilt the kernel with SATA and …. AHCI? drivers, that’s it.
As of yesterday:
We know that true infections are between 2-7x higher than positive tests, with the best estimates being somewhere around 4x, which means that we’re approaching about 40% of the state population having caught it and having sufficient antibodies. Perhaps, though probably unlikely, as much as 64% of the state has actually caught it.
Yet restrictions abound. Unemployment remains high and our economy (which was already pretty bad) has been curb stomped and shat on. Masks mandates remain in place, and the courts are bending over backwards to provide cover for the governor, including in blocking legislation neutering executive power that was not only passed by a majority, but doubly passed via overriding a veto with a supermajority.
Fuck Governor Beshear. May a woodchipper be in his future.
It’s the same here. We have Dr. Bonnie Henry basically sobbing for the camera and everybody just nods along. Fuck off, Karen.
I remember back in March last year, when China started locking down Wuhan, thinking, ” yeah but they are a draconian communist totalitarian state. We could never do that here. As jaded as I know I am, I’m still capable of underestimating the degree to which people will submit to oppression even over a minor health problem. I know, it was never about Captain Tripps, it was always about unseating Trump. Just shocking that it worked so well.
Edit Fairy needed on aisle 26. Jacked up link in progress.
In the spin class, in the couple minutes before the class started one guy was talking to another about DeWine announcing when the restrictions would come off. One comment from them was, “You were more likely to die driving here today then to meet someone infected under those numbers.” (the numbers were when Ohio is under 50 cases per 100,000 residents for two weeks). I brought up the potential reason being the state congress bill to strip his powers, and we chatted for a bit. There is a big pile of simmering resentment, and it may be reaching a boiling point.
More people are willing to point out that not only does the emperor have no clothes, but he’s a fucking moron as well.
“In the spin class…”
I was expecting something about Cuck Todd or Don Lemon.
*Cuck unintentional but appropriate
Spin class is less ridiculous then I look in my cycling kit.
/flaunts his lycra “privilege”
If anyone’s looking for a YouTube alternative I highly recommend Odysee.com. I just signed up and I’m impressed, no buffering and all the douchebags I like seem to be there. There’s even good variety and the comment section seems pretty civil too.
Has Styx shown up? I dig him (aside from the occult stuff).
Yeah, he’s there…he’s started posting exclusives that he doesn’t post on YouTube there as well in order to drive traffic.
Nifty! I’ll check it later.
Tobe Berkovitz, a professor at Boston University’s college of communications, said Biden’s “rope-a-dope” strategy was right for the moment.
“Presidential press conferences are not on the top of the agenda for Americans who are worried about COVID and the economic disaster that has befallen so many families,” he said.
Rope-a-dope. That’s it.
Problem being that rope-a-dope means that you grind your opponent down with smart defense. Cowering in the corner is just fucking lame. Come on, Man!
He’s not cowering in a corner. They’re hiding him there.
This isn’t Biden deciding to have a low profile, but his puppet masters.
It’s kind of strange talking to people outside of Texas or my little bubble, they still talk like the world is going to end. It’s beautiful outside. The world is still spinning and life is still pretty fucking awesome. I’m glad I don’t ever watch ‘the news’ anymore.
If it wasn’t for the media and the mask theater I wouldn’t know that anything was going on.
Yeah, it’s fine here in this place in which I live too.
That girl on the far right? I’d totally lift her bloomers.
I got a favorite blues song now. Been listening to the blues for a couple weeks. Took a blues class for piano. The song is the Oreo Cookie Blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs6Mpq_iufA
https://youtu.be/NIsfA9vGwUA
Also the movie The United States vs. Billie Holiday is really good. The Feds are such assholes. The Feds hate her singing Strange Fruit. It is a protest song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk
I wholeheartedly endorse your blues trip. I would offer up an example, but I can’t even do wrong right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNjl8M
Saw him open for Clapton. It was impressive to see a grandpa hit every note exactly perfectly on so many timeless classics, but Gary kicked his ass.
(squeals with delight) If ya like the blues, please to enjoy some Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers singing Give Me Back My Wig – https://youtu.be/b3kKZM8Shv4
Bloomberg headline:
Biden has Ambitions Beyond Undoing Trump’s Legacy
Wow. At least they’re honest.
Once we cancel Former President Cartoon Villain, we can get down to the serious business of turning America into a Stalinist Workers’ Paradise.
Hail Biden!
Narrator: Except he doesn’t.
“Ensuring the highest Congressional party turnover for a mid-term election in history” is an ambition, I guess.
Tasty num-nums?
Tendie nub-nubs.
Tasty num-nums are the treats I feed my pup.
I stand corrected.
Not to be confused with birdie num-nums. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpr_FjVWJgQ
A nap, some hair sniffing, early-bird dinner, a regular bowel movement, bedtime at 7pm.
Sounds like heaven to me. What?
He better get his shit together, before those meddling Indians take over the whole country!
Heh.
Finally shook off this hangover…I’ll start on another one in a few hours.
Watch your pancreas.
It’s kind of strange talking to people outside of Texas or my little bubble, they still talk like the world is going to end.
Really. The other day, I overheard a snippet of conversation about “…it’s SO CONTAGIOUS!”
No. It isn’t, you fat fuck. Look around you. Where are the thousands of “cases”? Is there a news blackout to avert panic?
There have probably been more suicides in this county than plague deaths.
It’s beginning to have a very real effect on my friendships, in so far as, there are certain people I haven’t seen in person since it all came down, and I am starting to suspect I may never see them in person again without them requiring that we all mask up for the entire time, and that I tell them I’ve been vaccinated. This covid thing has really done some societal sorting. The Branch Covidians vs the “covidiots”, “anti-vaxxers”, and “science-deniers”, in the most basic sense. I do however see some laxity in the doing as opposed to the saying on the part of most Covidians, of course. There’s an element of “well I’ll just go along with it but will never actually say that and always utter the right shibboleths”, because of course that level of cowardice and insincerity seems about standard these days.
My parents have invited me and the girlfriend over for dinner tomorrow for my dad’s 75th birthday. I’m going to make the assumption that my sister and her family have also been invited.
I feel my parents are adults, and old enough to decide their own risk tolerance, I don’t believe my sister feels the same way. I’ll be doing my damnedest to keep my mouth shut and avoid ranting at my sister if she starts bringing up how dangerous this is, and how the fabric masks saved lives.
Neph, tell your Sister to fuck right off.
“There’s an element of “well I’ll just go along with it but will never actually say that and always utter the right shibboleths”, because of course that level of cowardice and insincerity seems about standard these days.”
Meh.. I’ve got bills to pay.
O.K. I looked around. My granddaughter had Chicomvirus at college. My nephew has been bedridden with it for more than a week. His wife, a teacher, was in contact so the whole school shut down. My ex and her aged mother had it. My aged ex FIL died “with covid” several weeks ago. I personally know several other folks who contracted it. It’s real, etc. etc., maybe doesn’t justify all the hysteria and totalitarian shutdown, but come on, it’s real.
This man is attempting to be reasonable. Get him!
Sorry to hear that but have any of these condoms helped?
Who are those six turn-of-the-century lasses?
I don’t know but do you see that playful flash of bare wrist from #1? Rrrrooww! And don’t even get me started on the vague suggestion of a womanly figure so devishly hinted at by the risqué outfits on #4 and #5. I’ll be in my bunk.
Edina: God, what was it in your day? “Woman Shows Ankle To Chimney-Sweep Shock”?
Danke. (I was going to guess 1905-1910; yay me?)
I thought chimney sweepers were racists?
New York shirtwaist strikers in 1908.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_shirtwaist_strike_of_1909
Or 1909. Whatever.
Omwc…I dont do weekends.
That’s not what Winston’s Mom said.
…..I’d then pivot to the always useful, “Show us your tits!”
Always a crowd pleaser.
Baffling
The Senate was more than two hours into a vote on Friday afternoon as Jon Tester and several fellow Democrats pleaded with Joe Manchin.
The voluble West Virginian was talking with his colleagues, but even after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) implored him to move forward on a compromise approach to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid aid bill, she and Tester weren’t getting anywhere. Tester didn’t understand quite where Manchin was coming from as he resisted what Democratic leaders had already marketed as a popular compromise.
“I was trying to get Joe to work with Chuck [Schumer] to move this process forward,” Tester said. Asked on Friday evening what Manchin’s issue was, the Montanan said: “I don’t know. I really don’t.”
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Manchin had hinted earlier in the week that he would exert his pull over the relief debate. In an interview, he suggested that by June or July the economy should be opening up as vaccines become more widespread and the coronavirus recedes. And he worried about paying people more than $1,000 extra a month to stay home.
“We want people to get back to work. We’re gonna have a hard time getting people ready to go back in to keep the economy going,” he said on Tuesday. “It’d be awful for the doors to open up and there’s no one working. … That’s the problem.”
The episode baffled Democrats, who said Manchin threatened what they understood to be a universally acceptable compromise extending unemployment payments through September and making those benefits nontaxable. That earlier deal also trimmed the weekly benefit from $400 to $300, as Manchin had sought.
What’s your problem, man?
Don’t you want people to love you? Do the right thing. Shower the people with money, and they will love you for it.
a universally acceptable compromise
Well if it was universal they would have Republican support and wouldn’t be worrying about Manchin. Jesus people, when you’re going to lie – do it better.
I invented a new cocktail
50 ml rye whisky
25 ml Punt e Mes
3 dashes bitters
stir well over ice
not bad
Rye, vermouth, and bitters?
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Manhattan.
/stays oblivious
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1368003933709467648
CWAA
Isn’t he already vaccinated?
The other two guys are wearing N95s. It must be such a pleasure working in the WH now.
There is no vaccine for being a senile asshole.
YOUR TEAM HAS PUSHED POLICIES THAT LEAD TO DRAMATICALLY HIGHER CRIME RATES IN THE U.S. VERSUS MOST OF EUROPE. CONGRATULATIONS.
“Speaking of complaining, for work purposes, I sat through an hour long Zoom yesterday entitled “Building Energy Efficiency Policy under the Biden Administration” presented by (I kid you not) the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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Comply comrade or there will be more reeducation!
I personally know several other folks who contracted it. It’s real, etc. etc., maybe doesn’t justify all the hysteria and totalitarian shutdown, but come on, it’s real.
I’m not saying it isn’t real. I’m saying it has been grotesquely overhyped, based on astonishingly wrong computer models; numbers pulled out of somebody’s ass, in drag.
“Cases” is an infuriatingly meaningless metric. Without specificity regarding symptoms and severity, it’s an irrelevant measure.
Where are the real world observational studies? Where are the actual air samples showing the level of contaminants? Where is the contextual analysis?
I’d settle for where is the comparison to average deaths in a year? I haven’t seen anyone asking that question in many months.
When we know that seasonal flu deaths fell not just a little below a normal year. It will also be interesting to see if there was in fact a spike in suicides.
“We think maybe masks might possibly do some good, on some level.”
Fuck you, prove it.
All the actual clinical proof is in the other direction. The masks, they do nothing.
I can totally accept that statement. When they say that masks save lives and we should therefore all be forced to wear them, not so much. I have no doubt that, in certain circumstances, masks have done SOME degree of good. Nowhere near enough to prompt all of this bullshit, however. Especially in the context of a virus that’s less than one percent fatal among those who are exposed to it.
I would consider wearing it in a hospital or nursing home or some other place full of vulnerable old people who might be sick and that I have to hang around for long periods of time.
Walking down the street? Walking down the hall in my apartment building? Ten minutes in the grocery store? GFY.
That’s a lot of qualifiers there bud.
Mrs Prole and I were watching the scene from Utopia where the sociopaths gave people a heroin overdose, after lying about what it would do to them and threatening to shoot them if they didn’t meekly comply.
Me: So they’re saying, it’s a terrible idea to let strangers, who’ve already threatened you with deadly force, to inject an unknown chemical compound in your arm?
Mrs P looked at me as if she didn’t get what I was referring to.
Me: So they’re saying, it’s a terrible idea to let strangers, who’ve already threatened you with deadly force, to inject an unknown chemical compound in your arm?
Run away. What’s the worst that could happen?
Let’s ask Ed Buck.
It’s that deadly combination of optimism and the failure to have the epiphany that people OK with pointing guns at you may not care about you. It’s pretty much the basis of any political indoctrination.
[blinks] How can any human have the notion that someone pointing a gun at you has your best interests in mind?
See: the vast majority of American voters from both parties.
Disneyland is set to open on April 1st. APRIL 1ST! What are the odds it’s a prank?
So just Disneyworld has been open this whole time?
Contrast Florida with California. At least we might get to fire the tyrant.
I hope they scrubbed it clean of any references to anything that might be triggering.
Alright… off so the girlfriend can learn how maple syrup and sugar are made.
After she’s lived in this area her whole life.
/starts writing up plan for organic all natural maple water business
Ooh! Now I want maple sugar candy! I may have to drop in at the local “children’s farm.” (No, they don’t raise children there.) Spent many happy hours there as a kid, and the maple sugar candy was always a highlight of the trip. They always had events during maple sap harvesting time, and I guess it’s about that time, if not even later.
Kind of how the county honor farm is ran by and filled with people who have no honor?
Ugh, they gave that crap out at our “country village” too. I always tossed it. Can’t stand the stuff.
OH maple sugar > NY maple sugar ; )
The MetroParks were selling it for $1/3 pieces. Now at a brewery getting lunch, beer, and fancy glassware.
Alright, just grabbed 400 rounds of 5.56 62 gr for $280 from the local shop. I’m glad I stopped in to check. Today is off to a great start.
Hasn’t been there in months. Mostly 223 PMC.
It’s stolen bases, all the way down
Republicans are laying claim to an unlikely mantle: the party of women’s sports.
Eager to find a winning culture war issue, former President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders are increasingly touting themselves as champions of women in sports by pushing back against President Joe Biden’s efforts to expand transgender rights.
The effort — which critics call transphobic and likely to backfire — extends from the roughly 20 Republican-controlled states where legislators are advancing bills to keep transgender women from participating in interscholastic sports, to Trump himself, who told attendees this past weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida that it was “so important” to “protect women’s sports.”
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Others claim trans-inclusive sports policies are an infringement on women’s rights or a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that paved the way for women’s equality in sports and education.
Let’s just put all the contestants’ names in a hat, and have a random drawing to determine the winner.
Fair and equitable.
LOL, keep telling yourselves that.
It has to backfire, otherwise that would mean we were wrong. /progs-coming-close-to-the-unthinkable
Thanks for the tasty links, Old man. I’m gonna go be a carnivore just because I choose to be. Vegan Judi cooked me a steak. You guys are the best!
Proponents of the House bill and Biden’s actions dismissed conservative efforts to use women’s sports as a cudgel against Democrats as cruel and unlikely to yield the results Republicans desire in next year’s midterm elections.
“If Republicans want to earn the votes of suburban women, the issue that’s going to do it for them is being effective on issues that folks are having to confront at the dinner table. This is not that issue,” said Kate Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel at the Human Rights Campaign.
Oakley also cited the Connecticut court case as a reason to reject GOP “fear-mongering” around women’s sports, noting that Selina Soule, the lead plaintiff in the case, is now a track athlete at the College of Charleston. Oakley also pointed to recent instances in which Republican state legislators who have backed bills to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports have struggled to identify cases in their own states where an issue arose over a transgender athlete.
“This is an issue that’s completely manufactured,” Oakley said. “There are certainly folks who have daughters who are truly college-bound — and then there are parents who, let’s be honest, think that their daughters are. The time has passed for these arguments, and they’re going to fall apart really quickly.”
They just can’t resist calling the people who disagree with them stupid hicks, can they? “Those people aren’t enlightened enough to cut it at the university level. Let them go to nursing school.”
As far as kitchen table issues, maybe the Republicans should focus on swinging the conversation to the more generalized issue of what a mammoth swindle higher education in this country has become.
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And- then the Politicos tiptoe along the edge of recognizing what an infinitesimal number of cases they are talking about:
But conservative operatives who are hoping that Republicans will maintain a focus on women’s sports in the coming months claimed that they are simply adopting an approach first used by their political opponents.
“This is what Democrats do so well that Republicans don’t,” said Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principles Project, a group that launched anti-transgender ads about women’s sports during the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial race and 2020 general election. “They bring up the statistic of violence against transgender people — and you look at the numbers, and it’s, like, 40 people.” (An HRC report published last November identified at least 37 instances in which transgender or gender non-confirming people were killed in 2020).
How many schools and teams are affected? How many “athletes”? For all intents and purposes, none. Go ahead, Democrats, dig in. Build your fortifications. Die on that hill, in the name of DEMOCRACY!
Die in the brave defense of the right for a handful of mentally unbalanced boys to run cross country against the girls.
Folks like Lori Loughlin?
“Folks.” ?
Andy Ngo looked into the numbers a while back and it was all drug-deals or hook-ups gone bad. Nothing to do with “zOMG violence against transgender people”.
Right?! Those bitches shouldn’t be taking slots from more-deserving men in dresses.
And a non-zero number of mediocre male atheletes will “identify” as female slap a wig on and dominate. Especially with scholarships on the line.
SCIENCE!
Gov. Gavin Newsom advocated for Californians to “double mask” — and denounced Texas and Alabama legislators’ thinking over masks — during a Thursday press conference.
“We also put out … updates on mask wearing encouraging people, particularly those that use cloth masks to consider using an additional mask and double masking,” Newsom said in the presser, per video shared by KCRA.
It’s not a mandate or a strict regulation, he pointed out. But he did encourage Californians to “double down” on mask wearing, he said, “particularly in light of all of what I would argue is bad information coming from at least four states in this country.”
Bad information. If only we had a Constitution which wasn’t a suicide pact. You know, something with teeth. Then we’d get the hicks in line.
Kind of ironic that all the hot chicks in L.A. are now double baggers.
Oof.
It’s dangerous for him to cite other states. People might notice that Florida, with a much older population , is doing just fine.
They’ll just bust out stats that are meaningless and use them to show why FL is actually much worse off.
“Ackshually, even though the death is falling and on track to stay that way, the Diversion Rate is much higher in FL. See how bad they are?”