I knew I was in trouble when this was the shot-giver…
Noon on Easter I got shot #1 (Pfizer – at least I own stock in Pfizer…). In IL you get in when you can. You don’t know what you are getting either – just Date #1 and Date #2. I had been holding out for the one timer from J&J, but alas, it was not to be. I don’t worry about getting it for me (I have no co-morbidities and am below 65) or being “nudged” by Big Government….but my parents retirement community is strict about these things, so I sucked it up and got it.
I have had a bit worse than my usual reaction to the flu shot…so I am dragging arse today. That is my pre-emptive excuse about the Links anyways.
So if I thought I had it bad…
- My kids could have gone to NYC schools.
- I could be a subject of the UK.
- I could think this idiocy was even worth considering.
- Bonus Link – wait, were they at “The American Laundry”?
I am going to go make some tea and sit for a while.
Late and I still Firsted.
“Aren’t you done yet?”
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
My mom took her first shot today. So far no side effects.
Good on her. I am still a bit off. Well, more than normal, I should say.
Where did she get her body armor?
This is an underrated comment. It was seen Rat.
They say that older people have less issues with the shot. It’s because their immune systems are at a lower level than the young folks. When you bump it up, it only goes back to sorta normal. Young’ns have strong immune systems and they tend to have issues because they get bumped up to a level too high. At least that’s what I heard.
I took my first last week.
A bit of arm soreness, but nothing to complain about.
My wife took hers (J&J) two weeks ago, and I got my shingles vax at the same time. She was a little run-down and sluggish, but over-all not too bad.
I felt like I got smacked in the shoulder with a 3 pound sledge.
Mrs. Dean finally cracked and got her first shot (Moderna) this weekend. She thinks its bullshit, but her clients (who are older) won’t shut up about it, and she’s worried about travel restrictions.
Sore arm, as in really sore, but that’s it for side effects. I told her I, for one, was disappointed with the Moderna vaccine. I read on the internet it would rewrite my DNA, but I haven’t noticed a thing. At a minimum, I was hoping my hair would grow back.
I got the eyeroll I was expecting.
My wife is feeling that pressure also from her older clients, but so far none have come out and asked. Considering she can keep considerable distances in picking up dogs, she isn’t too concerned. Of course, our ability to do the trips we want to in the next 2-5 years might be a factor of getting one…which is bullshit.
Norway to see my place of heritage? Ireland to see my wife’s place of heritage? England to see the shores where my shitlord ancestors set foot to uh, give thanks to the locals? All off the board if we don’t comply.
Given the pushback that’s cropped up against vaccine passports, my gut is telling me those passports won’t work out as well as Our Betters think they will.
I am hoping that people see through it, but some never grew out of the enjoyment of being bent over daddy’s knee getting a spanking.
Aye, but finding the right woman with that attitude is quite fun 😉
Once upon a time when I was 20 and first out on my own and paying my own bills, I think I did something stupid like bounce a check or something. I don’t remember.
I called my mom and told her and asked her to yell at me.
She said, “Nope. I’m not going to make you feel better by yelling at you. Deal with it.”
The $37 NSF fee was enough chastizement for me.
$37 was a lot of money when I was skating close to the line. It’s still not nothing, but I’ve got my finances in good order so I don’t risk bouncing checks.
I was hoping my hair would grow back.
Check your palms.
+1 pr0nhub
There is so much jealousy of me as the First of Firsters that they’ll never give me the First gif. But I know and they know that I’m First so it’s ok.
You sure do wear your insecurity as a cloak.
Don’t know which one Mrs. Parnell got, but she had about 12 hours of feeling like total shit starting around 24 hours after getting the second shot.
I told her I was holding out for the one-shot, and then she went and called my bluff and got me an appointment for the one-shot. 2 hours in and no side effects or superpowers yet.
That’s the only one I’d consider. It’s an old school process which doesn’t alter your genes. Likely, it wears off after a while, which might be good. What if the changes the others make causes you to react crazily to some other virus in the future? You’re screwed. Ain’t no stopping that.
APIs are a fair use exception to copyright!
That is excellent news.
I would wager not for you or I though. Try taking 5% of Google API and build a rival system and see what happens.
Something about the process being the punishment would be the outcome I’d wager on.
Noon on Easter I got shot #1
The younguns at the office are getting the vax for some reason. One is out today because he has symptoms. Smh.
WFH means….too bad, turn the laptop on and get to work.
My wife tested positive and missed no time from work.
The city will modify its controversial two-case COVID-19 school closure rules, Mayor de Blasio confirmed Monday — but he refused to say what the new regulations will be, or when parents will find out.
As if they need to know.
They will know when the teacher’s union says it is ok to know!
Woke up to some minor shaking today. The NY transplants all have a new story about how they barely survived the ’21 quake.
New Californians were always fun to mess with when they got their first “earthquake”. You would think Kronos stomped through their neighborhoods the way they would speak of it. Us that grew up there usually said “There was some shaking? Huh”
I didn’t notice, stayed asleep.
Same here. I think it woke up my wife (she said she got up early and couldn’t go back to sleep – right around the time of the quake),
I still remember the 2011 5.8 “big one” in Virginia. The DMV region panicked. Our building was evacuated. When they decided to close shop for the day, we had to plead to be allowed back in the building to get our belongings. Then the commuter trains and Metrorail were restricted to 15 mph for fear of I don’t know. Having been through some California quakes, including ones were you see a ground wave, it was pretty lame.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yz2RC9C1tM
Does 4.0 even count as an earthquake?
California, New York and some other states would also like a minimum domestic rate set close to theirs so people can’t flee their tyranny.
Not content with fucking up the whole country AND foreign policy, now they want to rule the whole fucking world. These people!
Really working hard to prove C.S. Lewis’s dictum on tyrannies.
Ah, so a “race to the bottom” based around loopholes and special tax breaks for companies that bribe the right politicians, rather than around tax rates that apply to everyone.
“As soon as we have more solid information, more solid data, we’ll let you know.”
You have everything you need. You ae just being a tyrannical cunte.
The medical community had solid data probably as far back as late April, maybe early May on the Vid and yet still did all this shit and still no lampposts weighted down. Shows the fortitude of our fellow countrymen.
You write purty.
A global tax rate? Isn’t that price fixing and very bad?
Government monopolies are good.
Just ask your government, they can confirm.
“Competitiveness is about more than how U.S.-headquartered companies fare against other companies in global merger and acquisition bids,” Yellen said in prepared remarks. “It is about making sure that governments have stable tax systems that raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises, and that all citizens fairly share the burden of financing government.”
Aye, comrade.
I mean, it’s kind of laughable to pretend that tax rates have any relation to raising revenue when you look at the debts these people rack up. There’s no relation between revenue brought in and spending, so who the fuck cares at this point? It’s all about control.
The tax system isn’t about revenue. It is for rewarding friends and punishing enemies. You can’t let your enemies flee to freer lands.
Which brings the tax system back to the realm of royal prerogative and a new divine right to rule!
One would think, in our activism-centered public discourse, that the horrible environmental, labor, and/or human rights records of various states would rate a little higher than corporate tax policy in terms of “invest[ing] in essential public goods”, “respond[ing] to crises”, and “fairly shar[ing] the burden”. Sweatshops, strip mines, and concentration camps seem to have a more direct impact on real people’s lives than cutting off tax havens.
Oh, but those are just peasant lives, I guess. Plus, our political class is quite in bed with many regressive states. Nothing got better after the Panama Papers, though lots of people learned that control of the media was more effective than trying to hide their activities.
“Your tax system is fair when I say it’s fair.”
A tax system that raised money only for those purposes would likely be low rate, very simple, and quite stable.
The corporate tax rate should be zero. Treat dividends and capital gains like regular income.
Treat dividends and short-term capital gains like regular income, and reduce long-term capital gains by inflation since the year of acquisition.
OK, twist my arm.
100%
“reduce long-term capital gains by inflation since the year of acquisition”
Then there will be bogus inflation numbers.
Total tax receipts should be about 1/10th of what they are now. It really doesn’t matter hugely how that happens. If the money wrongly removed for the market was in line with what the government ought to be doing, the damage would be so small, nobody would care.
“It is about making sure that governments have stable tax systems that raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises, and that all citizens fairly share the burden of financing government.”
Trying to keep my blood pressure down when reading this.
FFS, Yellen, do you know ANYTHING about how a free market is supposed to function!? Or, what the the government is and isn’t supposed to do?
Why do I bother asking such questions of these mediocrities?
C’mon man. It’s the best government spending we’ve ever seen.
One reporter asked Biden if he was worried about companies potentially leaving the United States if he successfully raised corporate tax rates.
“Not at all. Not at all,” Biden replied. “Because there’s no evidence of that.” …
“You’re talking about companies in the Fortune 500 that haven’t paid a single penny in tax for 3 years,” he said. “Come on man.” …
“Everybody else in the rest of the world is investing billions and billions of dollars in infrastructure and we’re going to do it here,” he said.
And they called Trump’s words the Big Lie…
They’re so not worried about corporations leaving that they are looking to get a fixed corporate tax rate. No relation, I’m sure.
Forget it, he’s rolling.
So wait, the rest of the world is investing billions and billions on infrastructure, but they still have to raise their tax rate so they can afford to spend on infrastructure. Joe, you might want to make sure your team is on the same page.
According to the CBO the 2017 the US spending, state and federal, was $440 billion for transportation and water infrastructure alone. I suppose it’s possible that Trump cut it to zero, but I doubt it.
Yay, globalist industrial policy!
New World Order, coming right up.
Next you’ll tell me people who live in other countries aren’t excited about a US president they didn’t vote for telling them how to run their country.
Deleware Dems destroy dastardly denizens rights.
The Delaware Senate passed legislation banning “high capacity” magazines last week, forcing residents to sell such devices to law enforcement or risk prosecution.
The magazine legislation and another gun control bill requiring a license to purchase a handgun passed without any Republican support through the Democrat-controlled chamber on Thursday. The bills will now move to the Democrat-controlled House and, if passed, to Gov. John Carney’s desk.
Earlier in the week, Democratic leaders in the Senate suggested they planned to force the bills through without GOP support if necessary in the interest of public safety.
“The urgency for public safety laws that will protect Delawareans from the threat of gun violence gripping our communities must be carefully balanced with our duty to provide fair public notice of measures being considered by our chamber,” Senate President Pro Tempore David Sokola and Majority Whip Elizabeth Lockman said in the statement.
“These policies are not new and, put simply, Delawareans have waited too long for us to act on them,” Sokola and Lockman said, noting that previous attempts to enact such measures have failed. “Too many lives are at risk to justify any further delay in their consideration before the full Senate.”
Oh, well ok then.
Agreed
LOL.
They will get 12 rusted, dented and non functional ones.
$15K each?
I could part with a few at that price.
Sell a few and go buy more gun.
Delaware has a lot of coastline per square mile. I suspect there will be many unfortunate boating accidents in the months to come.
*checks spreadsheet with total capacity of all magazines in the safe, updates to include this weekend’s shipment”
*raises flag*
Just last week, the Iowa Guv signed a bill getting rid of the Permit to Acquire a handgun and making the Permit to Carry option (mostly for reciprocity with other states).
Dan Mitchell had some great images for his column yesterday about gun control
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2021/04/04/gun-control-humor-8/
Racist.
People who think they need permission from a government bureaucrat to breathe don’t deserve to (breathe).
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm
I managed to ram a small but painful splinter into the palm of my hand. Looks like I’ll be doing some razor blade surgery if my body does not expel it.
Owie. Good luck. Peroxide is your friend.
Try nail clippers. You can cut back the skin on a very small area and it heals pretty fast.
If there is any part of it sticking out, rub the area with sandpaper or an emery board. That will often pull it out, perhaps in small bits.
What’s your favorite tea, Swiss? I’ve gotten hooked on loose tea from a shop in Washington that my FIL found while on vacation. Fortunately the prices are decent. Although for the fun of it, I tried the top-end Sencha once. I mean, can it be THAT good? Unfortunately, yes it can, so now I have to go through a financial debate in my head every time I order.
My wife buys me Ito En Sencha-Matcha bags. She also picks up Genmaicha bags from varying companies when she can find it. For loose leaf, there is a store in Williamsburg that does blends.
Alokozay – can’t get in the US anymore. They had a flippin’ monopoly in Afghanistan, and those people can make damned good tea.
Looks like something I’d like. I like green tea from Japan, and I love a good black tea from Ceylon. But there are some great black teas from Africa.
What do you mean by THOSE PEOPLE!?!!
Tea Makers of the Panjshir.
So we are going to quibble over a few percentage points then.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) came out in opposition of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, citing the bill’s raising of the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.
Manchin, who holds a crucial swing vote in the Democrats’ slim Senate majority, revealed his position during a Monday interview with Metro News host Hoppy Kercheval.
“As the bill exists today, it needs to be changed,” Manchin stated.
“It’s more than just me, Hoppy,” the lawmaker added. “There’s six or seven other Democrats who feel very strongly about this. We have to be competitive, and we’re not going to throw caution to the wind.”
Manchin said he could vote in favor of hiking the corporate tax rate to 25 percent, not 28 percent, arguing raising the rate any further would harm the U.S. economy.
“If I don’t vote to get on it, it’s not going anywhere,” Manchin later warned in the interview.
I’m waiting to see what the quid pro quo will be for Manchin’s wife getting that commission spot.
How many kids do they have?
Maybe it was to pretend to get all worked up and hold the line at 25%. That way 25% becomes a shoo-in. Or, I just need to take off my Reynolds Fedora?
Sure, Joe. We can wait to raise it to 28% in the next gargantuan porkfest next year. Then to 40% the next time.
Who votes for this asshole? I thought WV was a red state? Well, not for long, half of Baltimore and DC now live there with more on the way, fleeing those shitholes.
WV doesn’t really align with either major party. They’ve gone GOP lately because the Democrats openly hate them.
But the UMW is a democrat client and a force to be reckoned with. But WV residents love them some guns and hunting. Very much problematic for future total dem takover of CONUS+HI
WV was part of the old, blue-collar component of the Democratic Party. As natural-resource blue-collar, they are the bastard, step children of the party now. Any shift to the Republicans will be offset by the commuter communities of government employees in the eastern part of the state.
Already happening. Berkeley County is a suburb of DC for all intents. And those people, as they have proven time and time again, will vote in the same shit they just ran away from. Pretty soon there will be nothing left of the entire country other than deep blue crime infested shitholes.
I’m wondering why Manchin didn’t just go to Schumer’s office and say “Here’s the dealio, Chuck. Nothing moves unless I say it moves, right? So you’re asking yourself “what does Joe need in order to get on board with our agenda?’ I’ll tell you what I need, Chuck. The Senate Majority Leader’s gavel. Capisce?”
Then he would have to broker the compromises himself, the way it stands now he has far more leverage.
“Yellen calls for global corporate tax rate in speech”
I keep telling them to just finish the wall to keep us in. Man, these are the dumbest authoritarians ever.
I’m glad to see the “state actor doctrine” being discussed seriously in places that matter, by people who matter.
Justice Thomas in a concurring opinion:
I think it’s safe to say that the left has been openly threatening digital platforms to censor “bad” speech, or else face hefty legal consequences. Both formal and informal threats have been thrown about from Twitter to newspaper articles to various anti-trust probes telling them exactly that: censor, or face legal consequences.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040521zor_3204.pdf
THIS QUOTE APPEARS ON PAGE 11, but the entire argument is worthy. Namely the sections discussing how federal courts found that Trump could not block users on his account because it was a de facto public space being used for official public purposes (the president discussing policy with his constituents), which poses problems for the “but they’re a private company” argument.
The tech firms are acting directly as agents of the government. They are being asked to act on their behalf under threat of punishment. This comes after they received special exemptions from the very same government. They seem to know that they need to please the lefties and that they can help ensure a permanent majority for them and, coupled with acting as their propaganda wing, they can now enact a sweeping censorship program and avoid any consequences. Special favor followed by threats of consequences equals acting at their behest.
Sorta like all the other companies falling in line because of the threat of higher taxes and impending regulations. Targeting them if they do not parrot and enthusiastically shout from the tops of their corporate headquarters is the right amount of fear they need to stay in country and not raise prices as those taxes inch higher.
People shouted we had a fascistic government anytime a Republican was in the oval office and now they are going to get to see exactly what that is.
The problem is that neither the government nor the tech firms are the prime mover. It’s teasing out causality between two correlated factors A and B while ignoring that there could be an external factor C causing both A and B.
The government and the tech firms will do whatever will keep them in the good graces of the People Who Matter, and the People Who Matter may share a creed but they honor no constitution, answer to no elections, and speak to the press only as masters not subjects.
Wouldn’t American Laundry be a Chinese place?
*narrows gaze*
Well, that’s just a little problematic, now isn’t it?
The student becomes the master…well done juris…well done.
Ditto. I am in awe.
It’s the Glibs equivalent of snatching a pebble from a palm.
Narrowed gaze?
+1 Calgon
Ancient French Secret, eh?
Whycome one political party disagree with other political party?
Acosta joined Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources, where part of the Sunday conversation revolved around the fact that Acosta will now host part of CNN Newsroom on the weekends. Since Acosta was in the middle of formulating his first shows, Stelter wanted to know “Do you feel like your rundown, your lineup is really different than it would have been in the Trump years?”
Acosta’s answer:
Reliable Sources
Probably deserves verse of its own in an Alannis Morisette song.
Would she go down on you despite covid theater?
That would be a little too ironic, don’t you think?
A new covid strain on your wedding day?
A vaccine slot when you don’t really care?
[Reminds RC Dean of the mess he left when went away]
VB sucks anyway.
Organizers of a Black Lives Matter protest Saturday night at the Oceanfront vowed to keep it orderly, to honor the lives of two people who were killed there the night of March 26.
The group of about 35 started at 5:45 with a rally in front of the iconic statue of King Neptune at 31st and the Boardwalk. At about 8:30 they marched south along the Boardwalk. While some were local, others were from Richmond, including a woman who gave her name only as Alice.
“I am protesting against police brutality and the killing of a lot of people,” saying she wanted “justice over peace”.
“We just want to be heard, we just want change,” said a man from Richmond who called himself Green.
The protest comes a week after multiple shootings at the Oceanfront killed two people and injured numerous others.
It certainly made Excel more functional
Such obscure, such laughter.
My very first thought was “yeah, it really suck, I’m embarrassed that it was my first programming job”
I am not someone who is big into things like riding snowmobiles, atv’s or 4-wheelers just for the fun of it (I also think it should be legal to shoot assholes on jet skis who decide to use your fishing boat as a pylon when roaring around the lake). Still, I understand that the misbegotten fools who do like driving are also tax payers and have as much right to public lands as anyone else.
The Minnesoda DNR unveiled a new trail that looks pretty cool from Lake Superior to North Dakota only to be instantly sued by environmental groups and locals.
In other words…. “I like the way things are now. If we open this trail the poors, deplorables and neanderthals will be out in the woods next to me”
@TARDis from dedthred:
You’ve heard my voice. Nobody wants to hear “cunte” or “cod” out of my mouth.
Go on….
I beg to differ.
Cods and Cuntes, as read by a middle school girl. Heheheh.
Sicko. ?
Minimum wage “debate”
Domino’s Pizza CEO Ritch Allison told investors in a February earnings call, “We’ve been able to manage our way through a lot of minimum wage increases across the country. And I’ll tell you, quite honestly, in our corporate store business, we’re not paying the federal minimum wage anyway. You can’t go out there and hire people at that rate anyway. We’re above the minimum wage, both for our folks that work inside the stores and our tip drivers on the road. And then in our supply chain business, we’re in excess of $15 an hour everywhere we operate.”
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The Cheesecake Factory is now partially owned by private equity firm Roark Capital Group, whose fast food chain recently bragged that it helped convince Congress not to include a $15 minimum wage measure in the American Rescue Plan.
Roark Capital has warned its investors that its portfolio companies could be “adversely affected by changes in governmental policies,” including the minimum wage. The firm’s managing director serves on the National Restaurant Association’s board, according to his firm bio.
But a top executive at the Cheesecake Factory told investors in February that raising the minimum wage would not cause problems for the company.
“Labor input is just a cost input,” said Matt Clark, Cheesecake Factory’s chief financial officer. “And you can try to put some technology around it to improve efficiency and such. But at the end of the day, most competition prices for it. And I think that’s the necessity to maintain margin structures that are competitive and attractive for continued investment.”
Clark added that a wage hike could affect some of the company’s competitors, and “ultimately the stronger survive and take market share.”
So there isn’t actually a federal maximum wage for the restaurant industry? No one will prevent you from setting your wages as high as you wish?
But if we can get the government to create a cost floor, some competitors will be forced to close.
If they can’t afford to pay the corporate rate, they don’t deserve to be in business.
Outlawing certain jobs is always a generous move, especially when you are prohibiting only the jobs that low skilled people can get. It’s the pinnacle of helpful.
“Your job sucks, I’d rather you be unemployed”
“First US case of more infectious ‘double mutant’ covid variant that emerged in India is identified in California”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9437277/First-case-infectious-double-mutant-Indian-covid-variant-identified-California.html
What about triple-dog mutant covid?
Sounds like a shark/covid/nado! Best bet is for us all to throw ourselves off of cliffs. Beats being captured by such a horrible evil.
Media Focus Group “Seems people aren’t buying into this ‘variant’ narrative, how about we try something a bit more punchy?”
double mutant
SCIENCE!!
“Two teen girls accused of car-jacking and killing an Uber Eats driver in D.C. ‘reach plea deal with prosecutor ensuring they will not be held past the age of 21 nor be placed in a prison facility'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9437615/Two-teenage-girls-accused-car-jacking-killing-Uber-Eats-driver-reach-plea-deal.html
Justice?
In this case, I think the Pakistani honor killing by the victim’s relatives should be allowed.
*checks charges against 17 year old who killed somebody in Kenosha last summer*
Ima say, justice isn’t being done in at least one of these cases.
I once knew a guy who spent 5 years in prison for dragging a fire marshall across a parking lot trying to escape a charge of selling fireworks. The marshall was scraped up but otherwise fine.
Justice?
Nope. I hope the prosecutor gets car jacked, ejected, and gets a burnout on his noggin’. Oh, and
livesexists. Wouldn’t want to have the POS escape so easily.I’m actually shocked D guv of KS shot down vaccine passports. She was all about a mask mandate.
But the counties, municipalities, and businesses have the real power. MO state has never mandated a mask or restrictions, but the small gummints did/are doing.
“Biden joins Jill and a masked bunny at the White House for his Easter message as he reminds Americans ‘Dawn is almost here’ and says ‘god willing’ there will be an egg roll next year”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9437905/Biden-joins-Jill-masked-bunny-White-House-Easter-message.html
So the Chinese are taking over?
If the spring roll goes on, we will indeed have good fortune.
Good fortune comes to those who cheat hard enough.
The masked Easter Bunny is something from a nightmare.
With Six Trillion You Get Eggroll
Currently, any school building with two or more unrelated coronavirus cases is immediately shuttered for up to two weeks — a threshold that has closed hundreds of schools each week
He could just be honest and close all the schools.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday it was too soon to say whether international summer holidays can go ahead this year, a remark suggesting a planned reopening of outbound travel could be pushed back beyond May 17.
Go fuck yourself.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday called for an end to global “tax competition,” which she said distorts the economic playing field and pressures governments to erode their own tax base.
Go fuck yourself. Taxation is theft.
The probe followed an undercover report aired on French TV network M6 over the weekend of luxury restaurants in affluent parts of Paris opening their back doors to “privileged” diners in breach of lockdown restrictions. The report included an interview with an unidentified man who claimed he had eaten in two or three clandestine restaurants “with a certain number of ministers”.
Some animals are more equal than others.
In some good news, I’ve now seen another local brewery looking to hire more help. This one with an entertaining job posting:
Timeloose, if you’re around, they’re interested in the show as well. The standard music playing in the place is third wave ska/punk.
I was visiting several of the acts this weekend at a brewery in NJ.
We have a new venue lined up, but it will require a August show date. There are lots of weddings and graduations filling up the places we would normally hold a show.
Looking like August 6th or 7th.
I would recommend anything from the brewery. Four City Brewery.
https://www.fourcitybrewing.com/
August.
I think PA will be a state where things won’t be back to normal by then.
Fuck Wolf.
The place I’m looking to hold the event can handle 500 600 people easily. We’re up to 75% capacity now.
Fuck Wolf
We need a recall mechanism in PA.
Fuck Wolf.
500-600 people isn’t bad.
I might be swinging back from a Western road trip in early August, which means passing through PA.
I doubt it will be that many, but it allows a buffer if they pull restrictions nonsense and reduce capacity to 50%.
If you can count money, pour beer without pissing anyone off, and want to make friends for life. You just found your next opportunity.
That lets me out.
*tosses want ads in fire*
I once helped the beer tent girls for about a half an hour. That shit is not easy. Of course, I was distracted by the girls quite a bit, but still.
You should have asked for them to return the favor breaking down your tent afterwards
A gentleman never tells.
But, I can you tell you another story form the same bike show. I worked for a company called Titan. The L.A. store was company owned ( as opposed to a franchise) and it was more important to the owners. The head sales guy was a friend of the owner. Titan had a deal with Playboy which included a special model and the use of girls for spokesmodel work.
This was at Palm Springs bike week, maybe 1998 or so. We had a Playboy chick manning our tent. I went for fun and had no compulsion to work the tent, but the owner’s friend from sales had to work it. I went by on Saturday morning and he and the Playboy chick were having a grand ole time. When I stopped in on Sunday morning, they were sullen and depressed. Barely spoke and wouldn’t answer when I asked what was wrong.
Later I saw the owner’s friend and asked him privately. They went out riding after closing the booth. She told him to gun it and he did. She neglected to actually hold on and flew right off the back, sliding around on the pavement for a while.
Then, she extorted the guy for a bunch of money. She claimed that she had to cancel a bunch of shoots ( likely true) and that she would have made x amount of money. If he didn’t pay her that, she’d front him off to his friend the owner of the company. He’d get fired and have to move back to Pheonix. So, he paid her off. Like thousands of dollars. Which was a lot of money considering he was on straight commission. I told he should tell her to fuck right off, but he was convinced that the owner would have his head if he found out. It took him probably six months to pay her off. Fucking pussy!
Jeebus, blackjack. The stories you have . . . .
relevant
The problem children that live below me are never going to see the inside of a schoolroom again, are they?
*counts the days until my lease expires in November*
PS. I have to wonder if it’s really a good idea to torture your kids with all-day masks, Plexiglas, and bubbles. But I reckon that most parents just want that “free” day care. I like to think that if I were a parent and I had the means, I would keep them home rather than subject them to that crap.
Maybe, but I’d bet you’d think otherwise, especially once summer ended and they’d been home for 6 straight months.
A full year later, you’d likely be contemplating whether it might be worth to go to prison for murder than keep them home a day longer.
My kids have been in the theater since August. Masks, social distancing, plexiglass, etc.
As much as my older son hates it, after we pulled him out for a couple weeks to get away from the nonsense, even he recognizes that being in school with all the bullshit is better than being at home.
Why do I think that this event might be in legal trouble for fraudulent advertising? People’s Power Love Fest located at the George Floyd Square in sunny Minneapolis!
“people’s power love fest”
Sounds like a gang bang by Communists perpetrated on the individual.
I’m not sure I want “Power Love”.
Huey Lewis haz a sad.
BY “POWER LOVE” MEAN…
How disconnected from reality do you have to be to make Floyd into a martyr? Thinking he was wrongly killed is one thing. But they can’t just stop there. No, we have to name a square after him and treat him like he was persecuted like Jesus.
Disconnected from reality is exactly the point of demoralization.
I think that this is sort of a good idea but think it is completely inefficient use of St. Paul cops’ time.
Why not just tell people to paint “SPPD” on their catalytic converters? I guess, though, that they are at least trying to help instead of being their usual selves.
AS a thief, after removing the painted converter, why wouldnt I get a can of Rust-o-Leum and paint over their paint myself ? Or for that matter, slop some Strip-eze on it before I hit the scrapyard ?
Look, there is a maximum IQ to be a cop.
Dot 3 brake fluid. Strips paint like nobody’s business.
Btw, I had no idea you were a thief!
Is it cheaper than regular paint removers?
I’d guess, without looking.
I dont know what a converter can score you for scrap, but I have an idea about replacement value. Im not a mechanic, but Ive cobbled together some exhausts (thanks, JC Whitney!).
Seems like the ROI or cost-benefit-analysis for laying under a car, at night (vulnerable), with a hacksaw is pretty low. Taking paint/markings off would be an extra step.
But you’re right about brake fluid.
In Cali, it’s illegal to sell a functional used converter. Only approved replacement converters can be installed. I paid 1600.00 for converters on my Trailblazer SS. In every other state, you can buy the aftermarket setup for 400.00 and install it in your driveway in about an hour.
It is cheaper to rent a moving van.
If everyone started doing that, they would. Since many (most?) won’t, it becomes a way to shift the thief’s attention to the next car on the block. Kinda like locking your car doors.
Why not just tell people to paint “SPPD” on their catalytic converters?
Because most people don’t have a farging clue which of the bits under their car is the catalytic converter? And by “most people”, I mean “including me”.
It’s something under the car along the exhaust pipe.
What it is along that pipe, I donno.
Stuff a banana in your tailpipe and when the car stalls pout look underneath for the glowing cherry red thing, that’s the CC.
I’m not going to fall for no banana in the tail pipe
Sounds like you’ve been to prison before, or maybe the navy?
Yes, he can sail the seven seas.
That’s…. that’s….. *head desk *
Mammary Monday gives two big reasons to get out of bed in the morning.
https://archive.li/lHSgq
Court orders?
Comedy and Tragedy
“I once knew a woman with 1 huge titty, and 1 tiny one. Called the bitch Biggie Smalls.”
Was gonna guess her name as Ilene.
Her asian cousin was “Irene”.
No face diapers, but unfortunately if you go to #27’s instagram page there is a face diaper picture.
“Hunter Biden says he probably smoked ‘parmesan cheese’ digging for crack in carpets ”
https://nypost.com/2021/04/04/hunter-biden-says-he-used-to-look-for-crack-in-carpets/
Just say no to rugs.
His laptop had a lot of shag from what I hear.
I’m reminded of the California lottery commercial where the shopping cart cam looks down the cheese aisle and the driver’s voice says, “I can afford all this cheese!”
yo’! Das nacho cheese! Das nacho cheese!
/old, vaguely, racist, joke
Wouldn’t the smater choice be investing in a dairy that makes cheese?
Lottery winners aren’t generally savvy investors.
I am not sure what I would do with a lottery win. What am I gonna do with it? Buy more junk? I already have three of everything there is piled up around here turning to rust or collecting dust. Uh….hookers and blow? Hard pass on that. I have already had everything, been everywhere, done everything. I stood on top of Illimani where the sky is deep purple in the middle of the day and you can see stars. I have walked on the bottom of the ocean (I dont recommend that). I have been rich, I have been poor. Every woman I see reminds me of one I have known before.
What in hell would I spend it on? I would probably just give it to my kids, but in small portions over a long period of time.
I’ve been everywhere, man!
Well….I have. Ok, not Antartica and no desire to go.
Thumbs up on the Johnny Cash.
Id hate to see a forensic examination of what could be found in my carpets (the few areas I have). Parmesan cheese would be WAY far down the list of what I would expect.
Unless he was partying with mafioso types @ their crib.
Biden connection to organized crime (other than unions and russian oligarchs that is) ?
Congratulations to every moron that voted Biden. I spoke with one this morning.
Me: “Thank you very much.”
Her: “Whut? He’s not going to do any of the things he said!”
Me: “He is doing them as we speak.”
Her: *blank look, mouth breathing*
Apparently most voters love a good fucking but they have a feral sense that admitting so would be shameful.
In case y’all haven’t guessed I am grouchier than a honey badger today. I am not sure why. I spent a very nice day in the most beautiful woods you can imagine. Ten minutes looking at the links today and I want to bite someone.
I need a drink.
Drink up! Its my day-night off, so Im working on getting hammered as fast as an empty stomach and Milwaukee’s Beast Diet will allow.
Yet again, Im left un-chaperoned for the next 2 weeks.
At what point should I call the sheriff’s office to do a welfare check?
When you have confirmed the life insurance policy on Tres.
Dont send those goons over here!
Due to her professional affiliation with business in our area, she knows most of them. If she suspects anything, she’ll demand I get Rodney King’d. Then again, Ive warned her how cops love shooting dogs, and she’d do anything to spare him.
#K9Collateral
*doge pic en route
Once per year my wife and her girlfriends go to the beach for 10 days. I dont mind being alone at all, in fact I fine a break from the constant television a welcome respite. It gives me a chance to think and write and read.
My only constraint is that I am not allowed to go to the woods as no one would know I am there and if something were to happen to me…..
Last year I spent the ten days reading and….drinking. I may have over done it a bit. I felt pretty bad. I thought….shit, I am gonna keel over and after a day or two the dogs will start gnawing on me then Mrs. Suthenboy will come home and find me like that.
Now I try to go easy.
You have two weeks. Go easy brother.
It’s been this cycle for a few months now. I’m holdin’ things down.
Just now trying to catch up. It is nonsense that the cootie bugs cause respiratory distress. Clearly they cause brain damage and it looks like nearly everyone has had it already.
Goddamned idiots.
NH tax revenue up overall so far for this fiscal year. Meals tax revenue down. Surprise, surprise.
The state’s soaring real estate market also has contributed to the strong performance of state taxes.
Buyers and sellers of property pay a real estate transfer tax equal to 75 cents for every $100 of property value. The tax has raised $153 million for the year, which was $32.8 million or 27% more than expected.
The tax on cigarettes and tobacco products also has been strong for the year, bringing in $183 million, or $33 million (21.8%) more than predicted.
The biggest decline in revenue due to COVID-19 has been the state’s 9% tax on restaurant meals and hotel rentals.
Through March, the tax had brought in $225 million, which was $61.7 million or 20.8% below expectations.
The hospitality industry has in the late spring begun to make a relative comeback as the state has loosened restrictions on dining capacity.
In March, for example, revenues were only 4% off the forecast.
Unprepared woman starts an evening hike, alone, on Mt. Monadnock. What could possibly go wrong?
She didn’t have proper clothing, food or water. She didn’t have a light source, map or compass.
Nonetheless, Massachusetts resident Jennifer Publicover, 40, started out on a hike up Mount Monadnock 6 p.m. Sunday, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. It didn’t end well.
NH Fish and Game charges every person they rescue for the rescue.
Youtube served up a news story about a guy who fell off Angel’s Landing and died. The reporters presented it as wondering why more isn’t don’t to make the hike safe. They then presented meaningless stats about who dies on the hike, like mostly men (most of the hikers are probably men), mostly out of state or from a foreign country (as are most visitors to the park). Finally they got some expert to say he’d be ok if they closed the trail altogether. Then they quietly surmised that the guy wandered off the trail and fell off. Maybe stay on the trail next time, dude. Fucking safety nuts are going to ruin things for everyone
I dont do it any more because I am old and like my creature comforts but back in the day….
Sleeping bag
Gun
fish line
hooks
matches
knife
sometimes my dog Smokey
I could stay gone for a week and never see or speak to another person. The only sounds I heard were the creeks and wind in the trees. Thinking about it maybe I should start doing that again.
I am sorry that that happened to that girl but her tragedy was self-inflicted. Poor thing.
Smokey had the ammo for the gun, right?
Here Smokey! Good dog.
Do they charge the family for the ones that “don’t make it”?
The area around home has many steep-sided deep canyons. S&R guy told me that, on average, two people fall to their deaths each year. Most of them had been “drinking heavily”.
At the entrance to a national park in Slovakia (Slovensky Raj) they have a booth where you can buy rescue insurance. I think it’s an idea they should implement at parks here.
I don’t have much problem with charging this lady, because she called in for help. When they take it upon themselves to go hunt people down and then charge them for the “service,” that pisses me off. Nobody asked for the service and making them pay for it is evil. If you fuck up and it kills you, that’s on you. If we’re gonna rescue everyone, then pay for it with the taxes we all pay, don’t bankrupt the poor sucker who may or may not have approved of the search in the first place.
Yup. I used to see this kind of stupid bullshit when kayaking and caving back in the day, and I see it backpacking now. And yes, the safety losers are always hovering around, tending to the stupid and irresponsible like a bunch of sheep-fucking farm hands.
Basic wilderness safety is something that anyone with a normal chromosome count can learn with a few YouTube videos and/or a trip to the public library. Given this, I have no problem with idiots getting charged through the nose when they need to be pulled out of situations of their own making. Leaving them to feed the vultures and foxes is also an option, though probably not a realistic one these days.
One of Sununu’s staff has Lil Rona
A member of Gov. Chris Sununu’s staff tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, and though this person was determined not to be a “close contact” of the governor, he will monitor himself for any symptoms.
The individual who tested positive has not been in the office since Thursday morning of last week, and is feeling fine, according to a news release issued by Sununu’s office.
Over the weekend, the individual woke up with a sore throat and “very minor symptoms” and began quarantining, the news release said.
“Out of an abundance of caution, a rapid test was conducted this morning and the result came back positive,” the news release said.
So far I am the only member of my family that hasn’t had it. Or I may have, I am not sure.
My brother is currently recovering fine after three days of flu-like symptoms.
Clark added that a wage hike could affect some of the company’s competitors, and “ultimately the stronger survive and take market share.”
These stupid bastards don’t get it.
When you make a deal with the Devil, the price is always higher than you thought it was going to be.
You got rid of those pesky little two-bit competitors. Congratulations. Have you thought about what happens tomorrow when the government decides the appropriate minimum wage is $20 an hour? Or the day after that, when the government decides that the big chain restaurants need to increase headcount by 35% to make sure there’s jobs for all the people put out of work by the pandemic? Or what about the day after that, when the government decides your franchisees employees are your employees?
I’m reminded of the Big 3 and their giveaways to the unions for decades assuming there would never be any real competition.
Just like the government, except – oh, they don’t have any competition.
The only good thing about Cheesecake Factory is their Christmas peppermint bark cheesecake.
Appeals court to hear NH legislators’ discrimination case
Two days before the New Hampshire House is scheduled to open a three-day session, lawyers were before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston arguing whether the session discriminates against lawmakers at high risk for COVID-19.
Republican House Speaker Sherman Packard has refused to allow state reps with underlying health conditions to participate remotely, which prompted a lawsuit now under appeal.
Justices peppered lawyers with pointed questions about the timing of any decision, federal funding and discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act against people with underlying medical conditions.
“If you show up and die, that’s going to be discrimination,” said Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson.
“Hey #NoVaccinePassports dipshits. It’s not fascism, you whiny fucks. We are trying to prevent people from dying. If you don’t want to get a vaccine that’s your right, but I also have a right to know that your dumbass isn’t putting my family at risk at crowded events.”
https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/1378456202749734912
CWAA
These people really piss me off. I’m supposed to shoot up some substance that literally alters my genes, in a desperate attempt to avoid getting a disease which won’t even bother me, all to save your family from getting the same nothingburger disease? Fuck you! It’s affecting less than one percent of society and less than one percent of them are dying. This whole thing was mostly a ruse to win the 2020 election. I ain’t getting the fucking shot. If they wanted me to trust them, they shouldn’t have lied constantly.
‘I ain’t getting the fucking shot.’
Neither am I. We have absolutely no idea what any longterm effects or side effects may be because it’s impossible without, you know, years of monitoring those things.
Seven to ten years from now we can talk….maybe. I’m not a fucking guinea pig.
Seven to ten years from now we can talk….maybe
The side effects, Dateline 2028:
The Glibertarian Party has gained a super-majority in both houses of Congress! Sugar Free nominated to be Chief Justice of SCOTUS. AOC nominated for new cabinet post, Secretary of Libidinal Services. Dr. Jill forced to teach ethix in NYC public schools. Hunter Biden cleans ten-thousandth toilet in NY state prison system.
” If they wanted me to trust them, they shouldn’t have lied constantly.”
“getting an ID is impossible for many minority groups because reasons…why do you want to exclude minorities from society, you racist?”
Biggest stupid clusterfuck in living memory.
I just believe if people are going to play this stupid game we should throw their own logic back in their faces…not that they would care or anything. Principles and consistency of thought is so gauche nowadays.
Always feeling, never thinking.
I made the mistake of wading into the replies:
Well there’s this little form called an I-9…
Somebody should tell that person that vaccpass requires proof of identity and that would require an ID of some sort. And as we all know, getting an ID is impossible for many minority groups because reasons…why do you want to exclude minorities from society, you racist?
Nobody is stopping your whiny bitch ass from hiding in your basement, if you’re so scared of a trivial risk. I’m not, so fuck right off.
Hmm, I seem to recall saying the same thing to some conservative types back in 2001. George Santayana would have wept…
‘Hmm, I seem to recall saying the same thing to some conservative types back in 2001.’
It seems Mussolini won WW2 and Bin Laden won the War on Terror. We’re becoming everything they wanted us to be.
“Nobody is stopping your whiny bitch ass from hiding in your basement, if you’re so scared of a trivial risk. I’m not, so fuck right off.”
This X 1000.
Or I suppose they could set their hair on fire and run around in little circles.
I don’t understand the mentality that likes being scolded. Does the author know that her intended audience isn’t everyone?
Oh, and cursed at too. Love that.
Why does your invented “right” trump my actual right?
This person requires cleansing.
Thanks for the links Swiss, but I never made it through the first because this was in the sidebar. (If I am the first to point that out I am dissapoint)
I won’t denigrate anyone for getting the shot, but damnation if we are going to go to vaccine passports/Chinese social scoring I am going to… *deletes rest of comment.
My argument to this point is I think I had it back in Jan 2020 and I am immune just like 90% of the people on the planet. To be honest, I am ok with never setting foot in an airport for the rest of my life. Agent sloper is done with traveling and I have always hated crowds so I am good.
Clearly the man who shot those pics is cut from my cloth, but why in G-d’s name would you do that in Dubai? There are about 100 other cities suitable for taking pictures of naked girls that won’t put you behind bars for doing so.
Having been to Dubai, the place is thick with former soviet block hookers, but ya, point taken.
It was a beautiful sight since the new Rangers ballpark full today.