Got a letter from the power company saying they plan to replace a utility pole this morning and thus will be rolling Amish for most of the morning. They quoted three and a half hours but having done the job of replacing a pole with the power on I know it shouldn’t take this long…
Whatever, here are the links!
With Pfizer announcing exports of their vaccine, Mexico aims to chip the entire population by next year. Lucky for them the City of Baltimore will help them out.
With papers, without papers, its not important. All people who live in Balmer over 16 are eligible to receive the vaccine gratis. Without exception.
Hot damn, they might actually pass us in spite of having 2/3 the population. One thing to note about Brazil, is the number of hospital beds on paper is on par with most countries in Europe. The issue is in distribution:
There are 25 ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants and 7.6 public ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants, rates that on average are close to most European countries (Rhodes et al 2012; Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística 2016). However, distribution ranges from fewer than 3 beds per 100,000 inhabitants in some states in the Northern region to more than 20 beds per 100,000 inhabitants in the Southeast states (Rhodes et al 2012, IBGE 2016).
How might this be relevant? Correct me if I am wrong, but the northern part of Brazil is highly underdeveloped, and extremely poor. Turns out, its really difficult to develop your economy when the entire world pisses and moans every time they try to utilize their natural resources like every other developed country on earth. That might mean little things like building hospitals, or roads to transport medical equipment over a densely forested area the size of the western half of the United States a little more complicated. I would be interested in seeing a distribution of deaths by state in Brazil when this is all over. Note the senator engaging in political theater, discussed here is from Amazonas—located in the north so there may be something to my theory.
Taxation is theft regardless of the country.
Here’s a classic tune.
Balmer, perpetually broke, yet somehow perpetually able to provide freebies.
Knowing Balmer, the city government will probably order Vicuñas and distribute those.
I imagined the denizens of North Balmer riding those around and laughed. I wonder if you could hydraulics and spinners for those?
Way too small to ride. I think Llamas, the cargo mule of new world camelids, tops out at about 40 lbs cargo.
Way to dash my hope of rap lyrics that are about their ’68 Llama.
Why? Does someone on the city council own a vicuna importing business?
No, but their cousin does.
An attempted joke on “vacuna” (vaccine) vs vicuña.
Wheeeeeeeee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
This can’t possibly end badly.
No way man. No way.
We are so fucked.
Ho-lee shit!
C’mon, its like watching Titanic. We all knew how this was going to end.
Banging the fairly attractive redheaded broad and then freezing to death? If this is supposed to feel like that I feel gypped.
Which should we go for as our currency name the Bolivar or the Rentenmark or …. kindling?
Wallpaper.
Ew. All those sets of eyes staring at you…
or the Illuminati all-seeing eye.
Dollar Fuerte?
Centhulhu
JI, per our convo in the last thread, of course, I remember that it has been shared a wee bit in the aftermath of the election. But, to his point, and looking at Michigan, Pennsylvania, and now AZ, I would say he was more right than wrong regarding electioneering and electoral theft. And you even tacitly admit that it the post I called you out on.
But, my point was that you don’t get to fight the battle you want, you fight the battle you get. And right now, or at least until the right started moving into a kulturkampf footing, the left was winning, and costing us many civil liberties. And that is something I find very important.
You see, I don’t really care if the country gets more liberal or more conservative, as long as those founding principles are followed. And if it takes one side fighting back just as dirty as the other side thinks, then I am cool with that.
I may not have been clear – Trump suggested that a loss in ’16 would be due to election rigging. That was supposed to salve his ego then. That he turns around after expecting to win and registers the same complaint – well, even if true, he can just fuck right off. That’s my opinion on Trump, period. Election irregularities are for me entirely divorced from that pompous fake fuckwad.
And you aren’t following the founding principles when you stop caring about how you win, and for that matter, how you lose. Because I don’t care who you are, you will lose from time to time. A lot of people here don’t believe it, but I think we’ll see the Dems soundly spanked in a year and a half. And if you think the caterwauling about gerrymandering is bad now – just wait.
I was at work when the earlier thread dropped, but these were my thoughts at the time.
You say the right should not emulate the left.
I say that entire premise is narcissistic. The right does not now and never has had the moral high ground. Even when they took a decidedly moral stand like opposing communism they get a clown man to promote it in the form of Joe McCarthy. We are lucky that anti-communism managed to remain de rigueur among our ruling class despite his antics.
More to point, this “we’re better than that” attitude is lost cause martyrdom. You’re not better than that. You never really were. And that’s just fine because you like they are humans. You are not the finer clay that Bastiat reminds us doesn’t exist. You are people. You have values. Your values are not inherently right nor inherently wrong; but they are yours and you have the absolute right to hold them. You should not compromise on them, you should not sell them out, and you should hold pride in them. But you are still as much capable of reason and unreason as your opponents.
Fuck KDW. He has long since lost the ability to avoid spewing bullshit. He got rejected in his upward ambition by The Atlantic and now he spends his days spite-fighting with the knuckle-draggers at the place he was going to leave behind. Ungrateful bastard. Every other thing he says is a social signal so he can one day climb that ladder again.
There is no high road. You already lost. The culture war is over, victory has been declared, and the winning side is shooting the survivors. You can try MLK’s approach but the forces arrayed against him were primarily local (Hoover and the FBI excepted) and the forces working with him were primarily global (colleges, cosmopolitans, Europeans). You will at best have local forces with you and global forces against you. That’s a stacked deck and you ought to know it. Also, he was a plagiarist and a philanderer, so don’t be too picky about the people; what matters is the values they espouse and the alignment of those values with yours.
I don’t think this country is ever going to be “one” again. This was it; COVID is the last gasp of a dying era and the birth of a new one. The nation that existed on 9/11 is gone, killed by attrition and the response to that event. The written Constitution is truly irrelevant now. You may want to restore it but that means creating a new country not trying to remake this one.
I bet you would have looked awesome standing atop the Maginot line.
What is quite clear is that nothing that Trump could have done, good or bad, was OK with you. And that is fine, but when so many of our freedoms were viscously yanked away minutes after that election and we have come to see, as I outlined in that last post, the specifics of the cheating. Now, could Biden have won anyway? Sure. And at the same time, Trump has been proven to have the election rigged against him, if not outright stolen. It looks like he was right more than wrong, in ’16 and in ’20.
I am not sure how you place him in the realm of violating any standard of how one wins an election, as you haven’t shown anything he did that was illegal, other than his complaints, which certainly don’t violate the constitution. But as you say, even if he was right in making those complaints, he can fuck right off. And that is just sad. Especially on a libertarian forum.
So we may get to find out what happens when the world’s largest economy and reserve currency country decides to pull an Argentina.
Not only will we get to find out, so will the rest of the world.
If anything this may resemble Britain’s return to the gold standard post WWI plus the German war reparations.
Nice tune, Señor!
I grew up with CCR in the house. My dad taught me Bad Moon Rising on the guitar when I was but a wee lad.
Good memories!
I grew up with CCR in the house.
Did John Fogerty read you bedtime stories?
“I’m No Fortunate Son,” a story of class warfare.
I didn’t get that from that song, I just got that it sucks to be poor and that coming from a rich family sucked less. Plus there was some actual class discrimination in the form of the draft, which rich kids could easily duck and poor kids couldn’t.
Plus there was some actual class discrimination in the form of the draft, which rich kids could easily duck and poor kids couldn’t.
Which, ironically, made it even less fair than the older version of the draft, where rich people could explicitly buy their way out (by paying a hefty fee or hiring a substitute), which at least ensured that everyone had some skin in the game somehow.
It was a source of shame for Theodore Roosevelt that his father bought his way out of the Civil War. Meh to poor president but a very interesting man.
I’m just joshing
*taps sarco-meter 3000*
It seems to need recalibration.
and did his band sue him for sounding too much like… himself?
He was sued for copyright infringement for copying his own song.
Basically, his old label filed a lawsuit against him when one of his solo songs sounded like one of his earlier songs (don’t remember if the early song was solo or CCR). But he had changed labels and the old label sued.
As I recall he fought all the way to the SC and when he lost there he refused to play any CCR songs in concert while the SOB at the label/publisher held the rights. I guess after that guy died he was able to reach a new deal (or reacquired the rights) because he did eventually perform them again.
Fogerty won his case. You’re probably thinking of George Harrison.
Although he did lose at lower levels, and maybe stopped playing them until he won at the SC.
yeah my dad is a big Creedence fan as well.
Seconded on the tune selection.
Has anyone ever gotten more mileage out of the same set of chords than CCR?
I don’t hate Credence, I don’t love them, but I can’t listen to more than two of their songs in a row.
Startling to me was that my wife, ~8 years younger than I, is a big CCR fan. Loves their stuff.
And I’m like, “Aren’t you the one always teasing me about my ’60s-70s rock music tastes?”
G-C-D-Em is pretty universal in most rock and/or roll.
I get that, and I know a little about music and chord progressions, but somehow every time CCR comes on, I’m like, “Fortunate So- Oh no, it’s the baseball son- no, wait a second, it’s that other CCR song I don’t know the name of.”
That is a fair point. Van Morrison used very similar progressions but, you are right, there is a qualitative difference in terms of creativity and skill.
Van’s problem was that for years every album had to have another shot at the music biz people he hated. He and Fogarty had that in common.
When he was sued by his former label for copyright infringement, Fogerty took a guitar to the stand and explained how the genre of “swamp rock” used a very limited set of cords and how that limited the basic chord progressions that he used. He then tried to explain how every song was unique because of blah blah blah. I don’t remember all his rationale, but he had reasons for why his songs sounded the way they did.
A college housemate owned one of the first pressings of Fogerty’s comback album, “Centerfield.” The original run featured a song “Zantz can’t Dance (but He’ll Steal Your Money),” mocking CCR producer Saul Zaentz. The second pressing featured redone vocals and titles changing it to “Vance can’t Dance.”
I wonder if he still has it.
AC/DC might give them a run at that title.
That’s a fair cop.
Kind of like Boston. A whole album with the same song repeated 9 times.
You know who is truly awful in that regard? Andrew WK.
Yeah, but that song is great
CCR is my generation.
Talkin’ bout my ge-ge-ge-generation!
Hope I die before I get oldSo your bathroom was on the right?
Colombia’s office of the ombudsman has confirmed that at least 17 people were killed in five days of protests against a proposed tax reform.
At least 800 people were injured as the police clashed with demonstrators in major cities.
That’s a hell of an anti-tax protest.
That CCR song is good.
Out yutes could take a lesson.
What can CCR teach gay millennials?
To look out their backdoor to see who will stop Lorraine?
¡Oral-é!
Makes our “insurrection” look positively tame.
That’s a hell of an anti-tax protest.
It should be noted that the tax being protested was felt to be severe, since Colombia is not rich enough to borrow like the US and actually has to pay its bills. FTA:
I’d bet if the middle-class in the US felt that proposed new taxes could push them into poverty, the powers that be would find out what a real insurrection looks like. There’s a reason the government likes to hide its takings through inflation or taxing people indirectly (such as by taxing businesses), and why the Dems push the lie that they can fund their spending spree by only taxing people who earn more than $400K/yr.
Well, that kicks the wheels out from under the vax passport thing. How do you know if someone has had the jab if they didn’t positively indetify themselves?
Also, how is giving an experimental vaccine to people who don’t identify themselves consistent with the protocol for such things? I don’t know for sure, but I thought an EUA required knowing who you gave the damn experimental drug to.
Who cares man? Everybody knows it’s safe.
You really think Vaccine Court is going to give a shit?
Like any other regulation, they will simply enforce whatever is convenient at the time.
If only we could get the unvaccinated to wear some sort of cloth around their arm so we would know that they are unclean.
And they should have to ring a bell so healthy folx can stay away from them.
The vax passport will apply to the citizenry, not the American nomenklatura nor to the underclass they use to oppress the citizenry.
In the Soviet Union, if a habitual criminal was caught with a knife, it was a misdemeanor. If a regular citizen had one, he was prosecuted as a terrorist.
+1 chain of work camps
Inner Party, Outer Party, and Proles are analogous…damn you Eric Blair, why’d you have to write that fucking book?
How do you know if someone has had the jab if they didn’t positively indetify themselves?
A forehead tattoo?
Give that man a gold star…
to sew on his jacket!
Good troll.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-nation-running-ads-for-new-special-on-gov-cuomos-scandals-during-chris-cuomos-show/
I was wondering about that.
LOL!
Now that’s how you troll.
The best legacy of the Trump years has been the noticeable increase in trolling.
TOS on the new CDC’s Guidance for summer camps
It’s a good thing Charlie Brown doesn’t have to go to camp anymore.
What, no goose-stepping from one activity to another?
It will be.
I’m not so optimistic. Yesterday I saw a soccer practice for 4-5 year-olds in the neighborhood. Every kid was wearing a mask. The same was true on a baseball field: the kids were a bit older.
We live among the true believers, who await Lord Foochy’s benediction before daring to remove the mask.
Elsewhere in the country there will be more ignoring (I hope).
Can I haz indulgence?
How much can you afford?
Probably not dinner at the French Laundry.
Then I’m afraid you can’t have any indulgances.
We can sell you a minor mercy.
Yeah, because the grownups tell them to. There are lots of opportunities to get away from them at summer camp.
There are lots of opportunities to get away from them at summer camp.
Especially since most of the workers at summer camps tend to be young adults, high-school/college age, who often don’t care about minor rule infractions.
I’m seeing the opposite here (which, TBF, is progtopia) – most college/high school kids _still_ wearing masks outside, even after the mandate was dropped last week.
I kid damn near died out here in the official world ie school sports.
https://notthebee.com/article/sad-this-is-what-had-to-happen-in-order-for-oregons-health-authority-to-change-their-masking-rules-for-outdoor-sports
In unsupervised sports, I see kids at the skate park on the other side of town, zero masks. I am tempted to buy them cigarettes as a reward.
Lol!
Yesterday I saw a soccer practice for 4-5 year-olds in the neighborhood. Every kid was wearing a mask.
Woof. We haven’t masked for soccer at all, and daughter has been playing on and off since September. The first couple weeks last fall, there were parents with masks, but that went away after week 2.
Anecdotally, my son’s games and practices (6 – 7 year olds) have seen every parent and child unmasked, with coaches and officials wearing them, but down on their chins.
Here in the mediocre state of Ohio, I was at a soccer tournament Friday evening and all day Sunday and basically around 5% maskage. Outside, people are done with masks.
Maybe by the campers, but the camp itself pretty much has to follow the CDC recommendations or else risk oblivion should anyone get sick. “CDC guidelines” are not innocuous suggestions, but essentially backdoor laws. You unnecessarily expose yourself to legal liability as a business if you ignore them.
They really want to create a generation of fat, non-competitive, tribal, kids who live in fear. This will not end well.
It’s easier to steal The Conch when everyone is Piggy.
You know who else organized people in cohorts?
Gaius Marius?
+1 Maniple
Demographers?
The Mage-Imperator?
I never finished that series.
LTG Max “Mad Max” | “Maxatollah” Thurman?
10th Mountain Division?
CDC Camps?
Great spa treatments.
The showers are to die for.
Even outside? That’s just fucking moronic, man.
Late again, but just wanted to say – thanks again Ozy for an awesome article. That was great reading at work (where I don’t log in).
My pleasure, Fishy!
https://www.theintell.com/story/news/2021/05/04/pa-covid-19-business-restrictions-lifted-memorial-day/4940658001/
Gee, thanks dickhead.
Fuck off to Wolf and his lackeys.
Wat? That’s more restrictive than anything in NY.
And during the summer. LOL sure, that will happen.
On the PA groups I am a member of, there is a shit-ton of defiance. His orders don’t mean much anymore.
He’s probably also worried about the upcoming May 18th election with the constitutional amendments related to emergency powers. If I remember correctly, there have to be two votes by the populace on a constitutional amendment for it to take effect, but if this gets enough votes, Wolf knows the gig is up. Yeah, he can’t run in 2022, but he can in 2026. I doubt he will. There are also other Democrats that could be adversely affected if the amendment gets enough votes. If the amendment gets enough votes, that means certain Democrats could be voted out.
Just for grins: https://www.whio.com/news/local/video-kings-island-sends-plush-bob-ross-dolls-test-run-new-roller-coaster/7NPNOH2FPZGW5PVAADVP3YAW7E/
🙂
I now love Kings Island even more.
The latest problem afflicting the poor – tree inequality.
Rural poor not considered.
And then there is of course, Detroit.
Nice. Thanks for that.
A city with trees spring through the floorboards and roofs of abandoned homes doesn’t need a tree-planting program.
That’s an impressive steaming pile of horseshit from start to finish.
Oddly serendipitous, they came along and planted our whole block (grass strip between sidewalk and curb) with trees today.
You can now consider yourself no longer poor.
Expect your property taxes to be raised.
We want mass transit, dense affordable housing, trees, and protection from viral epidemics!
There is no such thing as a tradeoff to these idiots.
They can grow trees in their subway cars to filter covid from the air. Everyone wins!
Who listens to tree huggers?
Everyone knows their bark is worse than their bite.
Yeah, but those saps just can’t leaf people alone.
They have deep roots in dendrophelia.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict a lot of people will have to look up that word.
I’ll stick this here.
Wood.
Man, Swiss’s glare is going to be narrowed down to shims.
Everyone at the camp—including staff and every kid over the age of two—must wear masks at all times, unless they are eating or swimming.
That’s backwards. They should wear masks and snorkels all day.
3.8 miles again.
?
How’s your prgoress been?
☹️
I see.
Just keep at it.
I was all set to have my favorite salad from Donato’s (regional pizza chain) for dinner last night, but they’re closed the first four Mondays in May. (Low staffing, I suspect.) TT craved stuffed crust pizza, so I ended up with a Papadia from Papa John’s because they don’t do salads.
:/
I haven’t had dinner yet
I haven’t had Donato’s in so long… I miss it. The only half decent pizza chain where I grew up.
They really want to create a generation of fat, non-competitive, tribal, kids who live in fear.
Something something chocolate ration.
Nation of Üters
Don’t make me run, I’m full of chocolate.
https://youtu.be/A5QQKNFqL5s
3.8 miles again.
Good work. Are your knees and hips starting to feel better/looser?
Not noticing anything about the joints.
The outside of my left calf is where I’m getting complaints.
We can touch it up in Photoshop.
Just got done voting NO on the local millage increases. The guy checking my ID studied my picture like I was trying to get into Fort Knox. Of course I was the only unmasked person in the building. And the plastic covid-19 shield at the table toppled over on some poor lady in a wheelchair.
Ate lunch at a local-to-work bar (Turkey Rachel for the win) and they have the saddest looking plexiglass/PVC pipe dividers between tables. Clearly, the virus can’t figure a way around these things.
mmmm, Turkey Rachel…
I’m hungry now.
Spoiler: Getting into Ft Knox ain’t that hard.
Is there even gold at Fort Knox anymore?
He checked my ID like I was trying to get into Canada?
Wife:”go ask daddy”
4 year old (happy birthday to her!): “what if [my first name] says no?”
Wife: “you mean daddy?”
4 year old: “yes, [my first name]”
I didn’t realize the teenage years started so early.
She’ll be trouble, that one.
Congrats 😀
She doesn’t call you Trashy?
Maybe the girl you are raising knows something you don’t?
I’m 54 and I can’t get myself to call my father by his name. I gave him the nickname years ago of Old Guy.
Last fall during hunting season, he declared that he was now the OOG (original Old Guy) and I would be NOG (New Old Guy). My sons loved it.
FedSoc presentation tonight at 8ET about the death of liberty.
I’d watch if I weren’t already booked.
I’ve been surprised how remarkably free of Star Wars nerdery this site has been on this May the 4th.
Star Wars was one good movie. The rest….
The Matrix was one good….
I like Star Wars, but it’s the 5/4 nonsense is a little much.
I don’t get it. Does 5/4 signify something?
Yes
May the Fourth.
Now de-lisp.
Ugh.
Does 5/4 signify something?
About impossible to dance to that time signature.
A lot of us are definitely anti-wars.
Use the Force
Starscape fans hate this.
Because today is Dave Brubeck day.
Oooh I like that.
Very nice.
That’s easy, from apathy.
“A newly-released study indicates that indeed there is a relationship between liberalism and mental disorders, at least among young Caucasian adults.”
https://lidblog.com/liberalism-is-mental-disorder/
People that can’t compete because they can’t cope want the playing field leveled in their favor? I didn’t click but that’s it, isn’t it?
To be fair, young Caucasian adults are also a mental disorder.
No lies detected.
Indeed. Now let’s discuss the cause.
Never mind. Too tired.
Hormones.
Without clicking through – people who adhere to a system that places value on being a victim are more likely to self-identify as having some sort of mental disorder in order to claim victimhood?
That’s probably the real reason, as the poll relied entirely on self-identification for both mental illness and ideological affiliation.
Shit, a quick skim through reddit will confirm this theory.
Eh, I would put that study in the exact same place as all the studies that claim conservatism is a mental disease.
That was my initial reaction as well.
Ya dont say.
I believe this because it confirms my biases. Although, I could see it being true, given the way the population skews. In the US, white people tend to be, on average, more conservative (or at least, more Republican), so that would mean that the standard culture among white people could be seen as more conservative than the population as a whole. Mental illness is one of the conditions that makes people more likely to deviate from the standard culture of their group, so we should expect it to be more common among those who go against the flow. Of course, a contrarian nature or an independent mind can also explain deviation, but those will probably be considered mental disorders soon enough.
Related
Professor in Scotland in trouble for praising David Hume, opposing segregation.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/29/neil-thin-cancelled-for-being-anti-racist/
What do you expect from England’s idiot hat?
A propeller beanie?
Drunken street fights?
Ireland looks up and says, “What ya feckin talking ’bout der?”
Heroin addiction?
+1 Trainspotting, great fookin’ movie!
Mmmm… Kelly McDonald.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ba/80/3c/ba803cefc1aef98141632ec1d18a6402–kelly-macdonald-s-style.jpg
Yeah, she was right good looking. She still looked alright as recently as Boardwalk Empire but I haven’t seen her lately.
I find her rather ubiquitously pretty.
Yeah she doesn’t look like a Hollywood starlet, just an attractive person who looks like she could be working at the library or the local flower shop or whatever.
That pretty much sums it up for me. I tend to be very attracted to normal people.
Lake-bound plesiosaurs?
It’s something else to be greeted by a pair of ladies like those two.
I’m going to name them Charlie and George.
Tucker Carlson Reveals House Leader Kevin McCarthy and Frank Luntz Live Together
A lobbyist and a pol shacking up. I saw people speculating elsewhere that old Kev might not be paying fair market value on the place which sounds like it’s actually one of the nicest setups in DC. Highly unethical and illegal if true.
Or maybe not lobbyist, whatever the hell you’d call that grifter.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
Brokeback Masion
Following a chain of links led me to this, introduced as “There Are No Longer Three Branches of Government, and DC Doesn’t Need a President to Operate The Modern System of U.S. Government”.
I agree in the gist but the IC is just one part of the system. The IC was the primary entrypoint into the government, and the instrument that empowered it was the War on Terror. If I were a paleocon, socon, or just non-neocon conservative I might be looking to woodchip some fellows named Kristol, Cheney, Boot, Powell, Bush, etc.
Who’s the top between a pol and pollster?
The pollster, no question.
I forget which Glib brought up Torpenhow Hill.
It turns out to be not quite real.
”Twas me. I’ll grant some of the issues raised, but the notion goes back to the 17th century. Also, differentiating the ‘crest of the hill’ from the hill proper seems rather pedantic. Pedantic but arguably accurate, which is, I suppose, the second best kind of pedantry.
I am eagerly looking forward to the day I see an untrained dog at the airport masquerading as an emotional support animal also wearing a sunflower badge.
Why wouldn’t the slobs who want to annoy the rest of us with their dogs on a plane also enroll the dog in a program for travelers with hidden disabilities?
Some of those listed disabilities are a lot less hidden than others. Like, talk to a person for 5 seconds and find out not hidden.
When does Major get his sunflower badge?
“This sunflower signifies that I’m allergic to vaccines, cotton, and elastic. You have to let me on.”
In a maybe-interesting parallel – has anyone else noticed the huge increase in cars plastered with ‘Student Driver – Please Be Patient’ decals?
I guess that everyone now feels the need to proudly express all the various ways that they can’t cope with life.
It’s a handy little thing to have when you’re teaching your kid to drive. When I see one, I find it a courtesy.
Maybe you are next to a driving school? I see cars like that all the time, but there are several driving schools in my area (not a surprise, because the roads around my area much higher capacity than they need to be, so it’s a perfect area to train).
I’ve long joked that when the “School’s Open — Drive Carefully!” signs go up, that somebody ought to put up signs saying “School’s Closed — Drive Recklessly”.
Let’s see RC Dean put up a patient as tough as Minnesoda Man from his hospital.
Minnesoda Rona victim survives 81 days on heart/lung machine.
Racial covenants have kept black Minnesodans from owning houses!
Powerline story taking down a Wall Street Journal article that claims that the reason there is a giant gap in home ownership between whites and blacks in Minneapolis is because of racial covenants. (Yes racial covenants were declared illegal in 1962).
Ozy, if you emailed me, I did not get it.
Freaking power went out as I was cooking dinner (Didn’t see storm hitting me until it happened – sometimes happens in this area, but it was 50% chance of rain less than an hour earlier). Back on now and I’ve got keto lasagna in the oven (noodle-free – just meat and lots of cheese!).
Before I forget again from this mornings links discussion – Gourmeltz has really great funnel cake fries – highly recommended if you stop there.
NH Beer Laws
Allegedly, state alcohol regulations are justified by the need to protect the public. Yet many of the laws that prevent the growth and expansion of craft breweries in New Hampshire are not remotely related to public health or safety. Their one and only purpose is to protect other industries from competition.
A bill to remove some wholly unnecessary craft brewery regulations shows how legislators intentionally handicap small businesses on behalf of more established industries.
Senate Bill 125 would make four changes to the state laws that regulate craft breweries. In each instance, the law that would be changed exists not to protect the public, but to protect restaurants, retailers, beer distributors or large breweries. (Note: Brewers are divided by law into nano breweries, brew pubs, and “beverage manufacturers.”)
Sometimes I can find Smuttynose in the local NJ liquor stores, sometimes I can’t. Last weekend I wanted some Old Brown Dog and couldn’t find it.
https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1389715674365300736?s=19
“Trump launches new website called ‘From the Desk of Donald J. Trump’ which lets followers share his posts to Twitter and Facebook”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9542839/Trump-launches-new-platform-desk-Donald-J-Trump.html
How long until they ban it?
“Derek Chauvin’s lawyer files motion asking for NEW trial citing jury misconduct a day after it emerged juror lied about being at BLM protest”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9543219/Derek-Chauvins-attorney-files-new-trial-claiming-jury-misconduct.html
IANAL, but it sounds like he has a case.
I mean I don’t know the rules that well, but that sounds like it should not be allowed.
Was that wrong?
There’s a lot of stuff – the unsequestered jury, the riots, the threat of more riots – by a sitting Congresscritter no less – so maybe this latest BLM juror thing will be what tips the scales of justice to a new trial – though maybe the trial court will punt it to the appeals court.
Of course I really have no idea.
though maybe the trial court will punt it to the appeals court.
The quotes I saw from the judge had me leaning toward this outcome. “I don’t want my house to burn down, so I’m gonna let this shitshow continue, knowing full well that it’s going up on appeal”
“White House press secretary Jen Psaki believes President Biden deserves credit for how he has handled the border and blamed Donald Trump for the migrant surge and the overflowing immigration system.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9542617/Psaki-Biden-deserves-CREDIT-improvements-southern-border-four-years-destruction.html
OFFS!
What “unproven remedies”? This here is journalistic bullshit. There are numerous treatments for this shit that don’t require hospitalization for most people. I am now on board with the conspiracy that the treatments for this were bashed in the media so big Pharma could make gazzilions. (and thanks for your tax dollars to make that happen) I can’t wait for the FOIA on Fauci and his teams emails with Pfizer and Moderna.
I can’t wait for the FOIA on Fauci and his teams emails with Pfizer and Moderna.
Spoiler alert: somehow these will be exempt. I’d put 50/50 odds on them somehow ending up classified.
Located on Hillary’s server.
Those emails are right next to the ones where Bush conspired to stage 9/11.
So you are saying we will finally get to the bottom of some shit here. Ok good.
Twenty years ago I would have laughed at it out of hand. Now, I wouldn’t be entire surprised.
And if you don’t think the CDC and whatever the fuck gotdamned government institute of bullshit Fauci heads do not trade emails with big pharma you are delusional.
I doubt we’ll ever see them
“Caitlyn Jenner releases first campaign ad to become California’s next Governor: Olympian, 71, slams Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi as ‘elitists’ and says ‘it’s time to restore the American dream’ by reopening schools and businesses”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9541635/Caitlyn-Jenner-slams-elitists-Gavin-Newsom-Nancy-Pelosi-campaign-ad.html
I’m surprised she still sounds that masculine. With her money she could hire the best voice trainer in the world.
You need a new source besides Daily Fail.
The thought that Count Potato might be a British housewife does amuse me though.
Sun readers don’t care who’s running the country, as long as she has big tits.
I can stand in front of that.
Wanker Song
featuring Bill Gates, Fauci, Tedros, Boris Johnson, and others.
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Instant classic.
Pork spareribs are on sale for 1.77/lb today..got many. Tomorrow the pork babybacks go on sale for 1.66/lb. My freezer is pork-laden.
Both 16 year olds have brought up the “vax talk”. One, who travels between two households says “so and so is high risk…” I answered “Then why has it been okay for the past year for you to go there?”
You, sir, are correct.