This is the first week post-corporate merger at work. Unfortunately, most of my work still needs to be done on the old computer but everyone keeps MS Teams calling me on the new one. So I am one of those people with two laptops.
Whatever, here’s some links:
Hmm, another COVID spike in Mexico? I guess they can call it that.
“[…]You’re almost halfway through your government and you’re still blaming ex-presidents for what you haven’t been able to do. So, my question is, do you believe that your [security] strategy of ‘hugs, not bullets’ has been a complete failure … and are you going to ask for help, because up to now you haven’t been able [to stem the violence].”
AMLO: “You are fake news.”
“… I have other information,” said AMLO, as the president is commonly, known, reverting to his favorite catchphrase when confronted with information which portrays him and his government in a negative light.
That flaming vortex from which SEA SMITH will…do whatever it is SEA SMITH does, was caused by lightning. Which is disappointing, because I was hoping it was Cthulhu.
Brazillian Trump investigated for allegations of corruption involving payments in a COVID vaccine deal.
Apparently, reading to cigar rollers is an occupation in Cuba.
It’s that time, guess what time it is? You guessed it…its TROPICAL STORM SEASON!
The Pope had surgery on his colon. No word on drugs falling out of his ass.
A metal cover of a Lady Gaga song? Relax, its not as terrible as you think.
I really loved the self-own regarding SEA SMITHS burning butthole and the comments about ‘unbridled capitalism when it turns out…it is State owned. Losers.
Also, apparently ignited by lightning. You know, a natural phenomenon starting fires and electrocuting people since forever.
Nah..that is due to climate change or human-induced weather phenomenon as I believe it will soon be coined.
Also it doesn’t like Jeeps.
06-25-2021 Waverly, KS – Lightning Strikes Vehicle
I wonder what it was like in the vehicle. Nobody hurt, but no surprise, every piece of electronics in the vehicle was toast.
Now I’m thinking of straff’s avatar.
FUCK THIS JEEP
Nice! Well..not nice…but still. I slowed that down and it was 4 strikes it looked like.
Vehicles and aircraft act as Faraday cages, fortunately. I want to know if there was damage to the bikes.
There were some molten pieces falling off the top..might have been the canvas, but maybe some serious pitting on the bike frames.
It went from top left to bottom right. I would also bet that the occupants had all their peachfuzz hairs standing on end from the potential they received.
Looks like an all-metal body Jeep product to me (ie, Cherokee). But totes respect to the occupants in any case. I’ve ridden out some nasty t-storms while camping.
OK, now I just remembered another Allamakee County tale I’ll have to pass on.
Speaking of self-owns:
Sound like anyone you know, Ramos?
Does the Pope shit in a bag?
In a basin. That way they can have Holy Water and Holy Shit.
/somebody had to say it
Now I’m wondering what they burn in the censers.
I was thinking of buying an old church building and opening a high-end cigar store.
I’d call it Holy Smokes.
Will it have a walk-in humidor, and a lounge complete with a bar?
How could it not?
Excellent.
I’d make the “is the Pope Catholic” joke, but…
Yes he probably shits in a bag.
He’s not actually the pope, you know.
Pay no attention to Avignon, err I mean, Pope Benedict XVI.
Blink twice if you’re actually still Pope.
I had no idea that guy was still alive. ?
Sometimes I miss Eddie, briefly.
WHAT TIME IS IT?
Ha! guessed it.
Knew it.
SQUAWK!
WHAT TIME IS LOVE?
What time is it?
It’s about time.
What time is it?
The clock on the wall say three o’clock
I’m a slow reader, and was going to post that. But good job.
“You got the rent money yet?”
Ha. I have a bad memory so I had to DDG the lyrics to make sure I got the time right.
Halestorm. All you needed to say.
Alestorm Gaga.
“A metal cover of a Lady Gaga song? Relax, its not as terrible as you think.”
At least she sounds like a good singer.
Is it really metal when the singer can carry a tune without screaming?
Yes
There were no early reports of serious damage as Elsa passed over Cuba.
Given how run-down Cuba is, would anyone be able to tell if there was damage from the hurricane?
Socialism works much better in cooler climates. Also where there is air conditioning.
Certainly not on Havana’s beachfront road. When I was there, the place looked like it had been shelled continuously for about a day by an offshore destroyer.
offshore?
Spoiler: it’s coming from inside the house.
A metal cover of a Lady Gaga song? Relax, its not as terrible as you think.
Huh. It’s not bad.
welp, I think I’ve packed for an overnight stay at the hospital. I packed a laptop in case there’s an internet connection to joke with you lot. If not, I packed a laptop to try and work on some writing.
Good luck and god speed UnCiv.
Thank you. I tend to be fairly phlegmatic about such things, so I should make it through mentally.
Feel better!
They say 1-2 weeks away from work. I suppose not evaluating RFP responses might make that process easier. 😛
Get really doped up and comment profusely.
Not liable to happen, simply because of the timetable.
So…like half the commentors?
Way underestimated.
I comment refusely.
Best wishes.
Thank you. As a procedure it’s fairly routine, so the odds are good.
I will be shocked if they don’t have a wifi network you can use. We’ve got a public one, our IT security team is so paranoid they never sleep in the same place twice.
Of course, whether you are willing to stick it into a public network is up to you.
It’s the linux laptop I use for travel.
Even our fredneck hospital has public WiFi.
I hope whatever this about goes well.
Here’s the rest of the thread.
Long story short – gallbladder removal.
My dad got a HUGE scar when he got his gallbladder out — bigger than his cardiac surgery!
Ofc he got that in the 1980’s, so you probably won’t get quite as bitchin’ of a scar as he did.
it’s laproscopic these days. My mother had three tiny scars.
See if the surgeon will give you a mensur scar while you’re there.
Too bad. Chicks dig scars on a dude.
And America had the highest doctor to daredevil ratio in the world.
My wife had hers out a few years ago and there was virtually no scar.
I searched thoroughly.
Good on you! ?
Were there any major dietary changes? I worked with a guy who said he couldn’t eat salads anymore. Salad???
“It goes out the same way it went in.” Um, okay then.
When I was a kid (50s and 60s) gallbladder surgery was a big deal, with long hospital stays, long recovery times, and non -trivial changes of really bad outcomes.
Progress is good.
So you will no longer have the gall to do things?
Wishing you the best bro. May your treatment go well, your recovery speedy, and your nurses pleasant.
Thanks.
Godspeed and hope you don’t go stir crazy.
While the procedure is pretty routine for the medics it ain’t routine for the recipient. All the folks will be wearing a mask, you’ll never recognize them later. They do that for their own personal non-recognizance in real life.
You’ll do well and will be back in no time, wait a few days on the walking thing but when the time comes give ‘er hell. Sorry to hear the news but you’re a young man and I guess the gall bladder is kind of an add-on luxury.
Get ready for HH, I’ll be ready for you and the boys and the girls (if any).
Glad you’re getting it taken care of before it explodes. Good luck!
Well, I’ve checked in, got poked by a bunch of needles, had blood taken, and am about to get hooked up to the IV tree. I figured I had to get the laptop out now, or finagling it around the tubing would be troublesome later.
How long are you in for? I was surprised how much poking and prodding they do now. They stuck me so many times during my incarceration last summer that they couldn’t find any veins near the end.
either tomorrow or thursday depending on when in the day the operation is (it wasn’t planned in advance, so it depends on availability)
Cool. Hopefully no complications like I had 🙂
They can’t find places to stick me the first time. I can’t give blood because my vessels are so small.
“Right hand. You’ll need a butterfly.”
“Oh, I’m sure we can do better than that.”
They try. Bless their hearts, they try to find places and they stick me in ALL the places, and I just sigh and let them find out for themselves until they give up and stick me where I told them to to begin with.
What they SHOULD do, but never do, is find a night-shift phlebotomist. Those vampires can stick me anywhere and get blood without giving me a bruise the size of California.
my left arm confounds people trying to find veins. my right id easier for them. I’d rather not have the iv hanging off my right arm… 🙁
Yeah, they had to call in “that guy” (it was usually a guy, sometimes a gal) several times.
“‘Crime is basically legal in San Francisco’: Furious shopper posts video of horde of shoplifters fleeing Neiman Marcus – totally unchecked – with armfuls of designer bags”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9760789/Horde-shoplifters-fled-San-Franciscos-Neiman-Marcus-undeterred-carrying-stolen-designer-goods.html
Carrying a gun, not so much.
Nobody could have predicted this.
Nobody on the city council.
City air will set us free!
Remember that carnival shooting game where you used a BB gun to knock down little ducks that paraded by in front of you? If they keep this up people might be playing that with bigger guns and shooting at not-ducks. I can see that happening.
I doubt that will happen in SF though. There is not one gun store in the entire city.
It will be great when Antifa actually kills some people in their protests when they get a bit too overzealous.
It’s only a matter of time.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
They already have. The body count in their riots is in the dozens, I believe (that number would include the ones killed by the Kenosha Kid, so . . . ). I can think of at least one killed personally by antifa.
Escape from
LASFThe prophecy is true.
Snake pulling needles out of his feet, and busting his ass from slipping in shit is a horrible plot.
I finally had a moment to click through and read this – and looked at the video. Note the one ethnic characteristic that all of the looters seem to have in common.
It’s making me wonder how many people who were not racists before are now racists just because these assholes persist in acting like assholes while their local governments look the other way.
At least they don’t have to wear masks.
“Almost half of America reports rising COVID infections, with Indian Delta variant responsible for 26% of cases: Biden promises ‘door-to-door’ campaign to urgently get rest of nation vaccinated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9761387/Almost-half-reports-rising-COVID-infections-Delta-variant-responsible-26-cases.html
Since it’s July, I’m having trouble believing that.
Don’t show up on my doorstep.
Door to door is not going to go over well in a lot of places.
https://g.co/kgs/s6FH3R
Not seeing it.
Sorry I thought that would share the graph I was looking at.
Here’s what it shows. Covid in the overall US is flat. and has such little presence you couldn’t get it if you tried. Has been for a long time.
Try that with the equally accurate “Less than half of America”, and see what response you get. Better: “More than half of America reports declining COVID infections”.
Does any of this look like a crisis to you?
As we learned last july, Covid — like a cold virus — is mostly unaffected by the weather.
I haven’t really done the work (sounds like a Back of the Envelope post to me), but I think it correlates with “time indoors”. We got our first spike last year when AC season hit.
Yes it correlates to behavior like a cold does. And probably relates to travel patterns too. So it does increase in winter.
But like a cold, it doesn’t really die out in summer, like we hoped. Hence the summer cold. If you look at last year’s covid graphs, you’ll see it managed to spike in mid summer just fine in many places.
I’ve been reading and listening a lot about the potential dangers of vaccinating during a pandemic. I suspect we will be living with the ‘vid forever.
We basically have no covid now.
I’m serious. Look at the graph. Let every stranger you see cough in your face and you still wouldn’t be able to get it.
I just meant that there may be far more variants due to evolutionary pressure.
yeah but you’re right. we may not ever be able
to lose it completely.
we just have to start ignoring these people.
People? 😉
Last summer I recall it was places in the sun belt (FL/TX specifically) getting all the doom and gloom headlines which correlates to staying indoors with the AC turned up.
“I’m having trouble believing that.”
They haven’t told the truth or said anything sensible yet, why would they start now?
Which half? East or West? North or South? Or some weird line from Washington to Florida?
and what does rising mean? a handful of extra people got it after 4th of july?
” with Indian Delta variant”
SO FUCKING RACIST.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57690737.amp
Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney, said on Thursday one of the vandalised locations was an African Evangelical Church in the city of Calgary.
He said its congregation was made up entirely of former refugees who fled countries where churches are often vandalised and burned down.
This was supposed to stop at the Confederate Battle Flag.
Also it’s not iconoclasts have a history of burning churches and repressive religious laws…oh wait.
That flaming vortex from which SEA SMITH will…do whatever it is SEA SMITH does, was caused by lightning. Which is disappointing, because I was hoping it was Cthulhu.
ZEUS IS BACK BABY!
“A Polish brewery has sparked outrage with a new beer called White IPA Matters and an advert featuring a black barman drinking it at a US-themed bar.
The Mentzen brewery, owned by right-wing politician Slawomir Mentzen, has been flooded with complaints by people claiming the commercial is racist.
It features a black barman cleaning glasses with the camera cutting to symbols of America’s Deep South, including a Confederate flag.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9760895/Polish-brewery-sparks-outrage-new-beer-called-White-IPA-Matters.html
LOLOLOL
That is how you troll.
This is how you drastically reduce your marketing budget while vastly increasing its reach.
That too. Almost made me want tolook it up and at least get a sixpack or something.
Uli Behringer has mastered this technique for e-music gear. It’s funny to see the spittle flecked (more like foaming at the mouth) free publicity he gets from people who hate him and his company.
No kidding. A+
I think that hit the 10-ring.
[cringing soy-boy] That’s a reference to gun violence, isn’t it? [/cs-b]
Maybe I’m going to come off as naïve here, but doesn’t the black guy come off as the cool guy in the commercial?
Not at all. He sells it perfectly.
How many pollack does it take to screw with the leftists?
*snort*
I love the Poles. They’ve been under the thumb (Nazis and Commies) and have zero fucks to give.
Tak.
nobody linked to it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHsGLz2CIig
Looks like ad has been out at least a month. This kind of manufactured outrage is just stupid.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JessAnderson2/status/1412492822826127363
Gee I wonder why they would do that?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-9761427/The-800B-scrapyard-Bagram-Air-Base-pillaged-troops-abandon-it.html
We have raised wasting money to an art form.
The personal items I can forgive. The military hardware…what the fuck is the excuse?
“It’s a write off for them.”
-Kramer
Reminds me of my dad bitching about abandoning Cam Rahn Bay. Dad was in the CE squadron during ‘Nam.
“We built that place from the ground up, and now the Ruskies have it!”
Sorely disappointed in the cigar-rolling story. I saw no thighs of cuban virgins anywhere.
“Black TikTokers go on STRIKE and refuse to create viral dances because white creators are ‘stealing their moves and failing to credit them'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9760817/Black-TikTokers-STRIKE-refuse-create-viral-dances-white-creators-fail-credit.html
OFFS!
The correct reply is “who gives a shit?”
I almost went with that….
I’m stealing these moves.
“The only thing new under the sun is what is new to you.”
There are no new moves.
LOl. The car was probably stolen.
We haven’t done enough protection of dance move intellectual property in this country.
Whatever…
If you don’t want people picking up on your moves, maybe don’t post them on the intertubes?
Just a thought.
This is precisely why I only dance in complete secrecy.
Dance like you’ve made sure no one is watching.
I have other information
I don’t know if this is particularly applicable to AMLO, but I hate that that argument (or “alternative facts”) is taken as somehow necessarily a sign of delusion or dishonesty. When the news tells a story they don’t provide all of the facts. They provide a curated selection of facts. That isn’t necessarily wrong. I mean, the cut of a suit worn by someone killed in a terrorist attack is probably not a fact anyone particularly cares about. But, the selection of facts can also serve to serve a narrative. “Other information” or “alternative facts” are simply a reference to that. Even if not done in bad faith, the media’s underlying biases can lead them to discount or dismiss facts that run counter to their narrative.
the cut of a suit worn by someone killed in a terrorist attack is probably not a fact anyone particularly cares about
Well, it does go to whether they needed killin’ or not.
I agree, BTW. But if you are going to say “I’m not a complete failure because alternative facts”, you better be ready to produce those alternative facts.
Fair enough. But, lately just the reference to alternative facts is treated as dishonesty itself. As if the media narrative itself is gospel that the facts must only serve to support.
Yeah, “alternative” is pretty much symmetrical. From the other point of view, the media’s facts were the “alternative” facts. The question is who’s right? It’s sheer question-begging to assume a specific side is right when they’re saying contrary things.
They would do themselves good though if they just called themselves “correct” instead of alternative.
“We don’t just report facts, we tell stories.”
-Actual NPR advertising slogan
Yup. Like Mother Goose: for thumbsuckers.
Seems like that “just” isn’t really doing anything in there. They should get rid of it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NatGeo/status/1411720474720096261
Scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations
Because people set off more illegal fireworks in the ghetto.
Jesus Christ.
“Scientists” needs about eighteen more sets of quotation marks around it.
Fake news. Anything with the word ,”work” in it is avoided in the ghetto.
Right, because me and my buddies Kip and Biff went to Oakland to shoot off fireworks.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/05/young-really-dangerously-socialist/
It turns out that there is a lot of truth to the stereotype of the woke socialist millennial/Zoomer. The overwhelming majority of young people really do express stridently anti-capitalist views across a broad range of issues. Seventy to 80 per cent believe that capitalism fuels climate change, racism, greed, materialism, and runaway housing costs. Similar proportions support nationalisations and rent controls. Young people associate “capitalism” primarily with exploitation, unfairness, corporations, and the rich, while associating “socialism” primarily with terms such as “workers”, “equal”, “public”, “fair”, “communal”, and, yes, “Jeremy Corbyn” (no, this is not over).
Virtually nobody associates socialism with the erstwhile showcase of “21st century socialism”, Venezuela. On the contrary, 75 per cent agree with the statement that “socialism is a good idea, but it has failed in the past because it has been badly done (for example in Venezuela)” – the old cliché that “real” socialism has “never been tried”
Teh Yutes are alright…
I recall back in the late 1980s plenty of people pointed out that lefty western professors and students were fare more interested in Communism then actual Russians or Chinese but that would never be a problem, right?
75 per cent agree with the statement that “socialism is a good idea, but it has failed in the past because it has been badly done (for example in Venezuela)
“So tell us, young person. As you peruse the ruling class, do you think they are capable of doing anything not-badly?”
holy shit young people are dumb. i clearly am not speaking up enough.
That’s just it, though. They always assume that it’ll be them and their friends and allies who are the ruling nomenklatura. And, of course, they and their friends and allies will always rule justly and optimally. They have no inkling of the degree of complexity of the things they want to rule over. Venezuela wanted to be Sweden and not Venezuela. And it really seems to be correlated with education. Where before getting an education often taught you how little of a clue you really have, now it seems like it’s focused on convincing you that you’re part of the intellectual elect.
Hence why Hayek called it the fatal conceit.
I’d say the high cost of housing is mostly due to a lack of capitalism. Or more precisely, interference in the free market.
Titty Tuesday doesn’t care about your stick family!
https://archive.is/qyGas
My favorite of the genre.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/962640-this-is-fine
Is this dog the average libertarian of the last 30 years?
…and the one-note flute plays on.
Wednesday. I’m flying to Daytona. Northeast coast of Florida. Me, and a hurricane. Great!
One of our fellow lurkers just closed last week end on a west coast condo, hope he got flood insurance. I’ll talk to him this week end.
https://financialpost.com/opinion/matthew-lau-on-school-closures-doug-ford-flunked-science/wcm/461526fc-d19b-4d99-9d5f-da753be21fa0/amp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
When the Ontario Liberals were in power, Doug Ford said they belonged in the Guinness Book of World Records for accumulating the largest sub-national debt in the world. Now, three years later, Ford can join the Liberals in infamy, having set his own world record by imposing the longest continuous COVID-19 lockdown of any jurisdiction anywhere.
….
By imposing lockdowns of such inordinate length, Ford inflicted upon Ontarians: financial calamities, especially among entrepreneurs and service sector workers; materially lower standards of living; curtailed civil liberties; worsened mental health; less domestic tranquility; and increased deaths from many non-coronavirus health problems, as many surgeries and other medical procedures were delayed or cancelled. The number of cancer screenings in Ontario fell by 51 per cent year-over-year in the last 10 months of 2020.
Ontariowe is in the best of hands. And Canadian Conservatives will save us…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/china-crypto-crackdown-regulation-software-firm-central-bank-cryptocurrency-laws-2021-7%3famp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/globalnews.ca/news/8005170/hong-kong-lam-teenagers/amp/
Insert winston spiel…
Insert it in Winston’s Mom?
I’m going to mow my lawn and there are thunderstorms in the area. I wonder how much I will get done before they hit?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1412012537986568193
Interesting thread…
One reply:
Leaving aside the “inherent bias” signalling that this person has brain damage from CRT, I’m pretty sure a lost life is still a vote in many places.
I’m kinda surprised how on-topic people stayed in the meatloaf article. Didn’t expect the actual meatloaf to dominate the conversation.
By the way, twas an actual true story (minus the woke bullshit, of course). My mom couldn’t cook meatloaf to save her life, so I thought I hated meatloaf. Wife’s nanna’s meatloaf is delicious.
Anyway, the story popped to mind the other day when somebody was discussing the way the prog-fascists have made the traditional family out to be this arbitrarily generated tool of oppression that people only participate in because they’ve been brainwashed. People tend to judge the concept of traditional family based on really horrible, abusive examples of families.
It makes sense that progs would oppose the family. It’s perhaps the greatest of the “mediating institutions”. The underlying idea, if I understand it correctly, is that there are certain institutions – family, churches, schools, fraternal organizations, even some businesses – that stand between the individual and the state, securing a place for participation by the individual outside the auspices of the government.
Uffda. This story reminds me of why I don’t like community things.
So cops notice a bunch of little free libraries are cleaned out and post a tsk-tsk item on social media as well as a pic of them donating more books. Outrage ensues when cops don’t have ironclad proof that books were actually stolen.
A few of the comments actually make it seem like even if the cops did have proof that someone took all the books and sold them, that would be a good thing.
The ability of people to overblow every little thing is so disheartening.
It’s the small things in life that make me want to move to the middle of bumfuck nowhere and never plug back into mainstream society.
Yeah, it’s pretty great.
Back in medieval times when I worked the trade we had some problems with theft of music and video but books were a slow mover with the light fingered crowd. What’s a thief gonna do with a book? Wholesale value was low. Book readers were a little better educated as a rule.
My guess is the free library stolen stuff will be dumped (jettisoned) as its heavy and of limited value. Free stuff is worth what you pay for it.
Probably a prank by some teenage kids.
Serious question: how senile is Joe Biden?
…on a scale from 1 to drooling incoherence?
Have you seen this?
Eleventy-hundred-kajillion unintelligible mumbles.
Very. Having seen my Grandmother-in-law succumb to Alzheimer’s/Dementia, he’s well down the slippery slope. The insidious thing about that disease is that it can limp along for a while and then all of a sudden decompensate and the patient will deteriorate really rapidly. I think Joey B’s in the “deteriorating rapidly” stage and his handlers are struggling to contain it. I don’t think they believed the collapse would happen this soon.
Hey Q, wasn’t it you that mentioned a while back you were looking at some property up around Fairbanks? Anything come of it?
A friend’s in-law has Alzheimer’s and is otherwise fit as a fiddle. In some ways that is the scariest because you think you can go to the bathroom for 5 minutes and when you come out she has left the house. No stranger thinks anything of a completely capable physically person walking in the neighborhood as anything even worth noticing.
We had the opposite problem with my Dad. In his last year he got very fragile (he was 94, after all) and had suffered from positional vertigo for a few years, but insisted on going for long walks every day. He was perfectly mentally competent up to the end, just stubborn. We were all terrified he’d fall and break a hip and lay on the sidewalk until someone came along.
My sister got him a simple cell phone. He refused to even touch it. I tried to get him to wear a medalert bracelet – he was allergic to morphine – and he refused. I even tried to get him to wear his old Army dogtags, and he responded by giving them to me, saying he wanted them with his WW2 Army uniforms that he had given me years before.
He never did have that bad fall. And as I said, he was competent; when he was hospitalized that last time I found, by his chair, a library book on particle physics that he had been reading. He was just a headstrong, stubborn old man right up to the end.
I’m guessing the only time he isn’t drooling onto a bib is when they jack him up with Adderal long enough to go out and mumble through some prepared remarks.
Our oldest (an NP with almost 20 years of emergency medicine experience who sees a lot of elderly patients) says he’s showing all the signs of advanced dementia: Problems with word finding, sudden unfounded anger, inappropriate sexual touching/remarks, and so on. He never should have been in office in the first place; he sure as hell isn’t fit to stay there.
I blame Herr Doktor Professor Jill. She wanted the chance to be the power behind the throne, and she wants to stay there, abuse of the elderly be damned.
So Biden is Woodrow Wilson basically.
I just can’t wait for him to unload a string of F-bombs on live television. It will make my century.
A day or so ago, EvilSheldon speculated that Biden might have slapped around his wife and kids in private. I replied and said I’m certain he did.
Thinking more on this, I think he might do more than unload F-bombs on live TV. Maybe like smack a reporter around.
It couldn’t happen to nicer people.
As an experienced observer it seems the transition time from first noticed to incomprehensible is a matter of months. I have younger relatives (Joe’s age) in the homes for those in decline.
I am scared to death for myself when I lose a word and can’t find the right one. My contemporaries share the same experiences. There are other associated noticeable physical things, tremors, Parkinson’s shaking, etc. Usually a couple years, watch your parents and elderly friends, when the facts start getting mixed up badly and yesterday’s events are total history it’s time for our kids to pay more attention.
This is the clip that has me worried.
Needing to pull out notes on hacking (and not finding them) is a bad look.
I’ve stopped worrying. I’m well into fatalism now.
I know, he can’t even do the “get a planted question and give an evasive non-answer” thing right.
Let’s attack his team’s policies, not poor Joe. A lot of people feel sympathetic toward him when he is attacked for a supposed illness. If most of the media wasn’t covering up for him, then maybe his health is fair game. Let’s let NYT and CNN start wondering, then we can all enjoy Madame President and wait for the GOP to screw up their chances in 2024 b y nominating a squish who will have to spend the whole campaign apologizing for being Hitler’s clone ’cause he did a book report on “Huckleberry Finn” back in 9th grade.
Let’s attack his team’s policies, not poor Joe.
I think this is good tactical advice. The policy environment is rich with targets. I think Joe can embarrass himself without any help.
And, yeah, I think he’s declined even since he took office. The back-office politics in the White House must be incandescently brutal.
So, I’m, usually I don’t give half a shit about sports drones doing activism shit during the national anthem (there’s an article somewhere in the archive with my full opinion… I’m too lazy to link it). However, I don’t think it’s too much to ask to not intentionally and flagrantly disrespect said nation while being a very publicly visible representative of said nation.
We’re I in a position of power, I’d cut every player/coach/staff/whatever on the US women’s soccer team who protested the national anthem. There are plenty of people out there who play good soccer and don’t hate the country they’re representing.
OTOH, If they wanted to play on a private team and protest, I wouldn’t give half a fuck.
Woof, I shouldve proofread after moving stuff around. At least the point comes across…
Like I said before, it’s part of your job description when you go to these events. And I would not be at all surprised if their contracts stipulate “no politics”. Hell, FIFA does not allow the display of any slogans at all during a match. They’ve been extremely accommodating of this shit if you ask me.
100% agree with you Trashy.
I think it is tasteless and stupid to antagonize your paying customers, but the yahoos in the NBA and NFL can protest all they want without getting me too worked up.
When you are playing (and being paid) by taxpayers to represent a nation, you had better be OK with the responsibilities that go along with that. If you don’t believe the country is worthy of your respect, go play somewhere else. No one is forcing you to put on the country’s uniform.
Maybe I’m old fashioned.
I’ve suggested before, replace the woke protesters with transsexuals. They’d probably be better players. I’m sure you could find some happy to salute the flag. And it would be hilarious watching the woke tie themselves up in knots trying to come down on the woke side.
According to Yahoo, some of the women we facing the flag, other were facing the harmonica player. I don’t really trust Yahoo, but unless I see a video showing the whole thing, I’ll give the players the benefit of the doubt. And I’m too lazy to hunt down a video. And I still dislike the purple haired lesbian.
There are images where you can see people in the crowd facing both ways as well, and the fact that most of the women who “turned away” have their hand over their heart makes it seem like a big nothing burger.
*shrug*
I’ll wait for a more credible source than the TMITE drones at Yahoo, but so be it if that’s the case. It’s still eminently believable given that team’s reputation for bullshit.
Fox even begrudgingly admits there most likely wasn’t any intentional disrespect.
https://mises.org/library/left-right-and-prospects-liberty-0/html/c/77
In its contemporary American form, the recent Conservative Revival embodied the death throes of an ineluctably moribund, Fundamentalist, rural, small-town, white Anglo-Saxon America
Think I’m kidding when I talk about libertarian worship of the city?
Also that America is dead and Rothbard’s modern acolytes are sure satisfied with what replaced it.
I don’t think you’re kidding. I think that you believe every word that you say.
So do you think I am wrong? Rothbard specifically said that small-town rural America was dying. What is the alternative?
Where did Rothbard say that? Honest question.
Personally, I think you’re accurate about a subset of libertarians. But, I think it’s a mistake to generalize from that subset to libertarianism, generally.
That does seem rather . . . collectivist.
And maybe more so a subset of writing/think tank libertarians. People like Randal O’toole (not entirely sure he’d even self describe as a libertarian) living in Camp Sherman are rarer among the cocktail set.
I’m sure will not be allowed to take on Brother Keith for AG in next year’s election.
The GOP will find some other candidate that will agree that the lockdowns were necessary, but just went a bit too far.
I just love that they ran a pic of Ellison above an article that was really about someone else.
Get well UCS. Don’t forget your surgicaling gloves!
His gloves of healing.
(get better UCS. And I hope Swiss Miss is doing well.)
thanks, both of you.
Nice cover by Hailstorm.
The club where that was filmed was a great venue that is now no more.
I saw Type-O negative before the end, a bunch of Hardcore shows, and the best and worst Clutch show.
The best show, Clutch did an amazing cover of Locomotive Breath.
The worst show the venue honored all of the tickets from a NJ Clutch show canceled due to SS Sandy. There had to be 2X the typical capacity so it was stupid crowded. My wife had a boot on after her foot surgery. I sent a few people flying after they slammed into me. We left 1hour after the show started.
I hate Teams phone calls. There’s no easy way to adjust the number of rings (hate it when I hear it when I’m on the other side of my desk. Never can unlock the screen and answer it in time) or IM back the caller than I’m busy at the moment (like I’m already talking on cell phone to someone else when the Teams call starts ringing).
I just keep mine on “Do Not Disturb” or “Appear Away” most of the time.
I need to make more use of that.
I wish I could do that but I need to be accessible for IMs.
98F and raining.
9377 and wicked thunderstorm here.52 and rainy here.
A little over 80 here, with foreboding skies. Waiting for Elsa, although we’re probably not going to get the worst of it.
I’ve been thinking of job hunting for defense jobs on the Florida gulf coast.
But then I thought about hurricanes. Hmm. Not that any of my personal possessions are irreplaceable but still not thrilled about having to evacuate.
I guess “big ones” don’t really hit that often though, do they?
Aren’t you working on stuff that can stop a hurricane?
I’m sure Raytheon in hiring. There’s any number of small/startup tech/engineering outfits in Tucson, also – the U of A seems to have done a pretty good job of setting up business incubators for its profs and grads.
We get no natural disasters in Southern Arizona. Other than the occasional wildfire, that is. But they’re mostly not a problem. Mostly.
Mark Kelly is a disaster.
Oh, you said *natural* disasters.
You don’t need any additional disasters – you’re already a sun-blasted hellscape
They’ve been fairly sparse the past couple decades.
According to the Wiki, Michael (2018) and Irma (2017) were bad, but they didn’t land anywhere near me, so I’m not the best person to ask. Before that, you’d have to go back to Andrew (1992) for one I even remember.
Not all bad
https://nypost.com/2021/07/06/nyc-essential-worker-parade-to-be-stripped-down-due-to-heat/amp/
Nice fuck you to everyone whose jobs were killed.
Precisely.
Doctors & nurses, I can see. Teachers? “Well your union has let you sit on your fat asses for a year, while getting paid as if you were doing something. Have a parade.”
My wife, an RN, can’t stand it. She says it is part of the job.
Yeah, that’s sickening. I sat on my ass too and worked it off while doing it. Where’s my fucking parade?
CWAA
Sensei – she can’t stand what? (not joking – I’m not sure what you mean)
Donut Munchers 554 Unite!
Okay, selective editing.
My wife can’t stand being called a hero for doing what is expected of you in a career in nursing.
Have a parade.
Or not, as the case may be.
Hey, UCS, good luck and get well! Gallbladder removals are totally routine.
thanks. I’m in the ‘long wait before’ stage.
I was going to post a link to a Tom Petty song, but I’ll just say Mojeaux’s right. And get better soon.
UCS is a good girl living in Reseda?
No but he’ll probably feel a whole lot better when it’s gone.
You don’t know how it feels, Ted.
Had mine out. No problem and I felt better as soon as the drugs wore off.
That’s not how drugs are supposed to work.
Make sure to ask them if you can take it home with you. Its technically “red bag” (medical) waste, so they might say no, but you never know!
If they ask you why, tell them that your religion requires that you be buried with all your organs, so that you can be reincarnated/resurrected.
It won’t be the strangest thing they’ve heard this week, I guarantee.
I was tempted to ask for the screws that they took out of my ankle but I didn’t want to seem weird (weirder), and I figured they would say they have some policy against that.
I’m not sure I want it after this.
Though if you’ve got a source for canopic jars…
Do you a kitty? He/she might want it. (nom nom nom. Mmm… gall)
No, and I would not do that.
Just kidding. Be well, UCS.
I liked the music link. And have fun UCS. The only good thing about hospitals is the drugs. Tip a nurse and get extra.
The only good thing about hospitals is the drugs.
*raises finger to object, draws a blank, wanders off*
It will be nice when it stops hurting to inhale deeply.
I can’t take deep breaths right now because that puts pressure on the gall bladder.
Andy’s diktats still require masks in medical institutions, so the guard at the door made me put one on. it said ‘kn95’, and all I know is that I was physically unable to pull air through the material and nearly had a choking fit trying to check in. I pulled the thing off once in the room and no one has commented once.
That’s fed requirements for health care facilities. Just like for public transportation.
whoever it was, it’s stupid to force people who have trouble breathing to block up their airways,
Gotta protect the vulnerable.
Yeah. The most beautiful words I had heard was the nurse whispering in my ear, “I gave you a double”.
And, no, you dirty minds. She was talking about pain meds.