I bet she’s got some great stories
“All I’m waiting for now is a big stupid outfit to put on my big stupid bird.”
Mrs. Earth in Las Vegas, USA, in 2017; potentially Miss Diamond, in Wales this August.
Anyway, how about a duet about some good old-fashioned cheatin’?
“Robyn Morrison spends her days working as a funeral director and funeral home manager, and in the evenings she teaches cheerleading to children.”
They are both “people” jobs dealing with emotions.
Brits have cheerleaders?
Perhaps none you want to look at.
When my parents passed, eight months apart, my siblings and I followed their wishes to the letter. No funeral homes, no caskets, no services, no nothing. Cremation. My oldest sister is keeping their ashes for now, until we siblings decide on an appropriate way to deal with them.
Mrs. Animal’s and my wills read the same. Not one penny on frippery.
I know the old saying about funerals being about the survivors. I get that. I’d never presume to make that choice for anyone else. But personally I think my parents’ choice was the right one. I find the whole funeral industry to be a trifle morbid, but that’s just me.
What we did do, a few months after Mom died, all five of us got together in person to close out the folks’ estate. All now in our fifties and sixties and seventies, we had lunch together and spent the afternoon talking about Mom and Dad, telling stories, and just being together.
I liked handling things that way.
Yep wife and I are all for burn the box, do what you want with the ashes. You want something for the survivors? Have a party and laugh, cry, hold each other, but we don’t need any pomp and circumstance.
My parents died 24 hours apart, so one service, at Arlington, then lunch.
Wendy was cremated, then i took my Daughters to dinner, gave out some ashes, and she sits on my shelf as I write.
I’m assuming the parent who died last died of a broken heart.
Holy crap.
“Frippery” is one of my favorite words.
Relevant
A close friend of our recently passed away (she was in her 40’s, way too young). Same with her, no funeral home or ceremony. Before she died she did tell us all to do what we needed to do after she was gone, so we had a memorial picnic. Her ashes will be scattered in a field of sunflowers that she really liked.
I would imagine the funeral home industry is taking a hit. This type of thing seems more common lately.
In an interesting piece of irony, our youngest daughter is studying for her mortician boards, and has just applied for a job as an embalmer.
One of the most interesting trade shows I’ve ever crashed was one for the mortuary/funeral home biz.
At Walt Disney World, even.
I love other people’s trade shows.
My uncle died last week (no condolences, please; he was a deadbeat asshole with whom my mom, aunts, and I did not get along), and he just had a visitation and graveside service.
My aunt and uncle whose memorial I went to in NC in April, they were cremated and a lovely memorial was had. Uncle died last October but WuFlu, then 5 months later my aunt died. So they had planned for cremation and the memorial could be had anytime. I like that.
My wife’s grandparent’s died a year apart and they requested that they have a simple Catholic funeral and that before the service, they were put into the ground and only the immediate family could be there at the burial site.
A black Baptist funeral ceremony is a lot different though, lol.
That’s an understatement.
No personal experience with the Baptists, but I have been to an AME funeral. That was an eye-opener. For me, that is, the guest of honor’s eyes were firmly shut.
I am the spawn of Puerto Rican Baptists. Pop raised two families – 3 daughters (including mom) by wife #1, 3 sons by wife #2 (a young Cuban gal he knocked up after a photo shoot, I am older than my 3 uncles). His funeral was epic, I probably should write it up one of these days.
Yes, you should.
I’m having myself cremated and the ashes dumped in the river at one of my favorite kayaking spots.
I’ve always thought it would be cool to go out in some way that would make me (even more) notorious. So, I have this enormous 12″ Bowie knife, and I figured that when I’m, say, a hundred and eight, and feeling sickly, I’ll go out in the bush, find the biggest grizzly I can find, and pick a fight. Figure maybe the bear and I can go through the gates of Valhalla together, laughing about what a great fight it was.
That’s Plan B, mind you. Plan A was being fucked to death by Scarlett Johansson, but the bear scenario is probably more realistic.
Okay I am totally laughing my ass off.
Cremation here, too.
Haven’t picked a spot to scatter the ashes, yet. Need to ask Mrs. Dean if she has anything in mind (for either of us).
Pater Dean’s spot is all picked out – his favorite fishing hole in NM. I suspect Mater Dean will want to join him.
We’ve pretty much decided to be cremated. Mr Mojeaux said, “What if I want to be buried?”
“Dude, you’ll be dead. You’ll get what I give you.”
I would not scatter the ashes. I would have a pretty urn on a shelf.
I’m childless. That creates the problem of who gets the ashes. Many of my friends are childless, which kicks the can down the road for someone to say – “oh, these are someone’s ashes but we never met this guy what do we do?”
Ultimately I don’t care what becomes of them but I’m trying to not create a legacy burden.
Send them here to Ohio. Ill pick up smoking again, and use you for an ashtray.
I like scattering. Sooner or later, that urn is going into the trash. Not you, but you won’t have it forever.
I know, I’ll be dead, but I’d still prefer that my remains be in a place I like, not a landfill.
After my FIL died, my MIL took a cross-country road trip with the dogs and the ashes to visit friends they had made while RVing. She had a special shaker urn. She scattered a few of his ashes everywhere they had visited.
Yeah, that’s why I don’t get my pets back when I have them cremated. Because someday they’ll end up in the trash, which I’m against only because it will make someone feel guilty.
diamonds are forever
dust to dust
We have plans to scatter our dogs’ ashes. The only ashes we have are from dogs who grew up in WI, and we plan to scatter them in the abandoned apple orchard next to our old house in WI. So, that means our next trip to WI, which has not been scheduled.
Cremation for me, also. But there is a small part of me that wants a memorial stone, one that has an Amrose Bierce entry from the devil’s dictionary:
Alone; In Bad Company.
I’d like to think my funeral will be something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZD3RJ7gdk8
I have to say I do love the bands parading all over New Orleans.
My Mom wanted cremation, and we held a memorial tea for her friends afterwards. We later scattered her ashes at a lake in central Alberta that she loved as a child; in doing so, we were breaking Alberta law.
Meh.
The SU and I have talked about it, and we both want cremation. I’ve made sure that our executor knows about that in case we go together (plane crash, nuke, SMOD, whatevs). I’ve always said that if I had a funeral, no-one but the tax man would attend anyways.
Death also would be there. Don’t forget that.
I said “tax man.” Death’s just their side hustle.
That should be in a book or something.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that dumping ashes could be construed as littering, and one of the Karens or Kevins with the “Friends of [name redacted] Park” would probably have a hissy. Particularly if they found it was me.
Yeah, a portion of both parents’s ashes were scattered in Yellowstone, strictly against the rules.
The remainder went to the site of grandad’s homestead in Montana.
I emphatically want my ashes anywhere but those locations. Ideally some on the campus of MSU and some in the Pacific off the PNW coast. Hug Point or Haystack Rock, or more broadly Cannon Beach area. In the before times, I’d have gone with some in the Portland Rose Gardens, but not ant longer 🙁
My ashes should be packed into the nose of some flying ashtray .45s, sealed in place, and shot at my enemies.
Hunter S Thompson had his cremains fired from a cannon. Totally Gonzo.
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
Those aftermarkets are NOT Blaire White quality. I do not want the name of her surgeon.
I do kinda want that hat tho.
I’m thinking she could have bought a house somewhere (but probably not in LA) for what she paid to look like this:
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1417929539796176898
Go big or go home.
OK, I lol’d a bit at this reply.
“Pronouns: that/bitch”
She is a kindred spirit.
She’d be a fun addition to zoom.
“Greg, why do you like strippers so much? Those fake tits and all….”
“Tres, if I can put my mouth on them, they’re not fake to me.”
“Point taken.”
-conversation between me & a stripper-chasing young sub-contractor
The spice must flow
Just be sure you walk without rhythm, so you don’t attract the worm.
Sorry to go OT so early, but just a reminder that I’m out of pocket tonight to watch the
GuardiansIndians play a game with some friends, so I won’t be able to host or kick off any Zoom tonight.We have kids visiting this week, so I won’t be in the Zooms this weekend. Should be back next week.
I do so look forward to our little talks.
Have fun. You’ll be missed.
RIOT! RAGE! Have fun.
I see that they’ve adopted the golden snitch as their logo. The millennials will love it.
I suppose the Chiefs are next.
A classic
Never gets old.
You beat me to the punch, Neph. I’ll guest host the Zoom / Happy Hour / Snarkfest tonight starting at 8:00 PM EDT.
Yea Tonio!
Huzzah!
I have to work.
/kicks @ rock
Got to go to the gym. Grew back the facial hair just for Tonio so might be on later this evening.
Switch gender pronouns and substitute “cub” for “femme” when listening to my response to OBE.
I love Emmylou Harris. She had a great voice, and was totally adorable.
Sorry to go OT so early, but just a reminder that I’m out of pocket tonight to watch the Guardians Indians play a game with some friends, so I won’t be able to host or kick off any Zoom tonight.
See if you can give us a feel for how much Chief Wahoo gear is in evidence. I’m guessing… lots.
Ballpark is the only place you can still buy it.
It’ll be Go Time for me in a few hours.
My wife and I are going to a play tonight, and in the email to us the people putting on the play said they will use a vaccine passport scheme – they will demand people attending the play either show a copy of their vaccine card, or wear a mask for the entirety of the play.
Except, I googled it, and the TX governor signed a bill into law, Senate Bill 968, prohibiting vaccine passports:
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00968F.htm
I’ll try to be as nice and polite as possible as one can be – while telling someone that they are violating my civil rights and breaking the law, and that they need to quit breaking the law effective immediately. If they don’t back down immediately, I’ll start filming the encounter on my cell phone.
As my dad always told me, pick your battles wisely. Good luck prolefeed. I suspect they will fall back on ‘it is private property and we can refuse service’…even though we know that line was not acceptable not more than 18 months ago.
Depends on how the statute is written. I started reading it but there’s a lot of stuff at the beginning which has nothing to do with this situation.
Here’s the relevant text:
” (c) A business in this state may not require a customer to
provide any documentation certifying the customer’s COVID-19
vaccination or post-transmission recovery on entry to, to gain
access to, or to receive service from the business. A business that
fails to comply with this subsection is not eligible to receive a
grant or enter into a contract payable with state funds.”
The governor also mentioned that any business that tries to implement vaccine passports can look forward to having their business licenses revoked, and death by a thousand cuts from health inspectors, etc.
Which is just the obverse of the same gov’t making vaccine “passports” mandatory.
Oh, if it’s an arts org they probably get state grants. While I (reluctantly) agree that orgs have freedom of association in this instance, they do not have the right to do so using tax dollars.
Probably more like grants from Austin city govt – which the EO the governor put out a few months said meant they couldn’t accept and also do vaccine passports.
As to freedom of association – they don’t get to support enacted laws that private businesses are “public accommodations” who have to accept anyone, but ignore those laws and turn away customers because those customers are wrongthinkers who believe their private health data is none of anyone else’s fucking business.
I’m pretty sure they’d be horrified and outraged if some business asked for the WRONG type of private health data, like requiring proof of HIV status, and making anyone refusing to disclose that wear Shame Muzzles or special armbands. Say, yellow armbands with some symbol on it to let everyone else know they should be shunned.
There’s no language preventing a mask requirement.
They could require a mask for ALL customers, sure. If they wanted to do that, I’d shrug and do it, cause I want to see the play.
But what they said they would do is ask every single potential customer to show them a vaccine passport, and THEN they would order just the wrongthinkers to put on a mask.
There’s no way to identify the people they want to wear a Face Diaper without setting up a vaccine passport scheme. That’s where they run afoul of the law.
*high five*
Good luck!
Don’t call me for bail money.
I’m assuming this has been vetted and approved by your wife?
I haven’t said a word about this to my wife. Maybe the people at the door to the play will roll over quickly.
My wife is all for civil rights except for all those icky ones that she doesn’t believe ARE civil rights, or if standing up to Karens raises a fuss, unless it’s done by BLM activists, or occurred during the 60s.
Shorter: “I believe in civil rights. Except when you do it.”
Good luck. Please let us know how this turns out.
Good luck. We’re all counting on you.
“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”
-Psalm something or other
What?! No Agile Cyborg quote?!
Its past my bedtime. Im not starting the AC quote search at this hour. And Ill have dreams of “wasps nipples lactating poison”.
Or you could respect the property owners wishes and not use immoral laws to circumvent them just because this time those immoral laws are on your side of the issue.
Or take a stand that the property owners’ wishes are based on dubious laws or regulations and that their adherence to them will result in loss of revenue. I am just a simple Fed turning a wrench so what do I know.
“I was only following orders!”
How is any private entity going to get a vaccine database without state involvement?
Why do they need a vaccine database? How they determine what counts as “proof of vaccine” is entirely up to them.
“Private medical information? Fuck you. Show me your hysterectomy records.” What a great libertarian take under the guise of – “private business.”
Man, that phrase gets a fucking workout – stretched like an 11-year old Chinese ballerina.
What’s interesting is the origin of the concept “where is the state action?” That whole notion comes from jurisprudence, particularly the Supreme Court – that bastion of great libertarian thought.
And now it’s nothing more than a rhetorical weapon any time someone points out individual rights being violated by yes – private businesses. Hey, note to everyone, we don’t allow private businesses to hold you against your will or it’s called kidnapping. (In the old common law days, suspected shoplifters could not be detained or it was the tort of false imprisonment.)
The idea that I should have no legal recourse for violations of my civil liberties simply because it’s not “state action” is so wonderfully wrong. More SCOTUS sophistry to erode individual rights.
I think what you’re missing here is that no one actually has to show their hysterotomy records, they can choose to simply not see the community actors guilds rendition of Plaza Suite. Does the owner of a Playhouse have the right to say who get to come in and watch the plays he puts on or not? that’s the only libertarian question I see at issue here. If I own a playhouse and I require a tattooed taint for admittance and want to visually verify each patrons nether regions, that’s probably not a great business move but I certainly am not violating anyone’s civil liberties.
And when we live in Libertopia . . . .
But we don’t. The question , at least for me, is, how to resist this nonsense? If prolefeed wants to use an actual law (even if we don’t think it should exist), to make a point, then I say go for it. Worst case scenario, he highlights how stupid such laws are, and how easy it is to flout them. Strikes me as pretty libertarian.
This also reminds of the “Well, if your a libertarian, whycome you drive on roads paid for by taxes, or accept Social Security checks, etc. ad infinitum.” Hey, I’m playing the game by the rules. I might like different rules, but what difference does that make?
Because they’re in the way. The government went and gridded the land, and crammed them into all the accessable routes to anywhere. It is physically impossible to drive around them.
Worst case scenario, he highlights how stupid such laws are
No, worst case scenario is that this argument reinforce the belief that the government has the authority to tell businesses who they can/must do business with, and the battle remains focused on who gets to be the protected class instead of why we even have protected classes at all.
Hype – I don’t know if you’re a lawyer or not, nor do I know how steeped you are in this issue, but this is deeper than simply “bake the cake”. It implicates where we jumped the shark (legally, anyway) in light of restrictive covenants on property. i.e. Deeds in a plat plan that prohibited plots being sold to blacks. It’s the case that cost Bork his chance for SCOTUS.
It goes far beyond the “private biznesses can do ANYTHING!!! MUH FREEDOM OF UH-SO-SHEE-AYSHUN!!!!!” for me.
I think it has become dumbed down to a point that it’s hard for me to talk about it in a comment without knowing the depth to which folks have delved down on how and why the Kennedy DoJ decided to pursue “discrimination” against blacks in private businesses.
Because all of that has gotten us to where we are now and your answer – and a lot of libertarians – seems to be to keep blaring this trope as if it’s a magic talisman. It’s not working. And it’s not as smart as you think it is.
I’m with Hype on this. It’s stupid and useless posturing, but I have the choice to tell them to go fuck themselves.
If this is “stupid and useless posturing”, how do you feel about what Rosa Parks did? Should she have just shut up and sat in the back of the bus and not raised a fuss?
If businesses try to find a loophole around the vaccine passport bullshit, and no one calls them on it, that will embolden other businesses to violate those civil rights.
Where that slippery slope ends up is what they’re doing in France, where you can’t transact ANY business in public, including life sustaining activities like shopping for groceries, without “Paperein, bitte!” And throwing people in jail who refuse to go along, for at least 6 months.
I don’t see that analogy at all. Nor the analogy made earlier about being held forcibly.
If I don’t like a private business’s mask policy or whatever, I have the free choice to go elsewhere. This is, at least to my understanding, not a government or other public entity.
And before someone else goes there, yes, if a private business decides it doesn’t want to serve Jews, I have no legal problem with that. Their property, their rules.
This is, at least to my understanding, not a government or other public entity.
Serious question: Does the fact that they are supported financially by the government change your thinking on this?
It is, of course, true that you can always accede to their requirements. In this case, those requirements are at least arguably illegal.
Prolefeed has the legal “right” (actually, probably a privilege) to go that play without producing a vaccine record, under Texas law. I have no problem whatsoever with prolefeed standing on his rights. Pitching a fit because you just don’t like something is one thing. I think this is something a little different.
Not for nothing, and I’m very concerned with the recent trend of having private entities do the bidding of the government, but… My reading of the relevant portion of the statute seems to lead me to believe that the law prohibits a business from using vax status if they have any government contracts of receive any grants from the government. Joe blow’s Plays-are-us is probably within the law by requiring it.
Shoulda re-read it all first. The mask thing is seemingly OK, but there’s an issue with selective enforcement of it. Unless that’s the latest CDC tomfoolery, that would make it a reasonable restriction, legally. Courts love experts. I bet you could find some interesting arguments from back when we were being lied to about HIV.
How in the wide world of fuck is a law stating you cannot ask about a persons medical history an immoral law?
I can ask you anything I want, You don’t have to answer, It’s a beautiful symbiotic relationship that requires no laws or enforcement by gangs with guns. Anything else is an immoral imposition on one of our natural rights.
If you don’t see that the “state” is pushing vaccines against many peoples will and some businesses will gladly get on the band wagon to help push them then I don’t know what to tell you. They have became an arm of the state and are no longer a private business but an arm of tyranny and fuck them. Ya I don’t have to go there, but what happens when they all are pressured into being an arm of the state to keep a business license? You grow your own food?
I’ll try to be as nice and polite as possible as one can be – while telling someone that they are violating my civil rights and breaking the law, and that they need to quit breaking the law effective immediately. If they don’t back down immediately, I’ll start filming the encounter on my cell phone.
Good luck. We’re all counting on you.
I suppose the Chiefs are next.
Kansas City Chefs, with a pineapple pizza for a mascot.
Dude. BBQ. It’d be a rack of ribs.
Smothered in KC Masterpiece™, no doubt. ?
Not old school Mikey D’s bbq sauce?
Each BBQ has its own place and purpose, like mayo, Miracle Whip, and Spin Blend. I am partial to Arby’s BBQ sauce.
That is a fair and quiet point Mojeaux. One that should be embraced by more.
Sweet Baby Ray’s has it’s place, too.
Miracle Whip is Satan’s ejaculate. And while I dont favor legislation, should be banned.
Okay, AC.
Shush, you.
Hey, just be glad I didn’t say “Bulls-Eye™ BBQ Sauce.” That shit’s everywhere up here.
Great googly moogly!
From the Ben & Jerry’s article:
Heresy! Everyone knows that we need to invest in more childcare subsidies so state-approved caretakers can raise our children! And easing up on permit requirements will lead to building collapses!
You know how Kim Gardner’s office forgot to send someone to prosecute to a murder trial, resulting in the accused being found not guilty? Well, it wasn’t Kimmie’s fault she didn’t know that prosecutor she assigned was on maternity leave. Someone had been signing her in as if she were at work.
And you thought Chicago had the lead in ghost work/no show jobs!
Boooo!
Are you AFSCME?
I’ll never tell!
Nope. Still her fault. You want to sit in the Big Chair? You get to take the hits.
Even worse, her office has been committing fraud on the court.
Yeah, I was hoping the “Kimmie” bit/infantalizing that corrupt evidence-falsifying bitch would have communicated sarcasm in re: the poor widdle dear couldn’t be expected to be responsible for a big complicated lawyer-place.
Sometimes I am a bit too oblique
*recalibrates sarcasmometer*
I like that they included a photo of the accused, but left out a pic of the other accused.
This morning’s links had one about Californians moving to Montana and the locals not being real happy about and it got a lot of comments.
Just got back from the local car parts place and the tatted-up and pierced-up lady that owns it went on a rant about that subject. She’s real chatty and it doesn’t take much to get her going. Anyway, she moved here (from Texas) because she likes the way it is – she doesn’t want to change it.
I agreed and said I may be from California, but then gave her R.C. Dean’s line “I’m a refugee, not a missionary.” She loved it.
“I’m a refugee, not a missionary.” I use it, and it works, my new Compradres vow to make me a Michigander, go home Fudgies!
/after you spend your tourist bucks here of course
Yeah. It is how Vegas used to be. Now…we are just a suburb of Los Angeles. Good thing that beautiful view we have will be covered up with a Super Target.
Yeah, I find it the height of arrogance to move somewhere and expect anyone to conform to me. WTF is wrong with people?
Colonization has a long history. Thousands of years of people moving someplace new with the intent of making it much like where they left.
I am stealing this.
You don’t have to steal nothing. Just give them blankets with covid on them. It’ll decimate 1 percent of them, right off the bat.
??
Well, if it’s me and a few million of my buddies, that’s different.
OK, I know what the missionary position is, but what is the refugee position?
And is it better or worse with a tatted and pierced up lady?
Asking for Tundra.
“Kanye West called out for $40 HOT DOGS as outrageously overpriced ‘album listening party’ menu goes viral on Twitter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9819129/Kanye-West-album-listening-party-menu-goes-viral-Twitter.html
Joey Chestnut haz a sad.
But I assume those prices come with the privilege of basking in his glory for a few minutes? Cred like that for your Instagram is worth every penny.
He should respond with “You should have been at last year’s party, the hot dogs were $40.16. Thanks President Biden!”
Applause, in that fancy way everyone else here seems to know how to do.
“‘Shrinkflation’ strikes shoppers across the country: Companies faced with rising costs are downsizing packages without reducing prices in stealthy move to hit consumers in the wallet”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9818391/Shrinkflation-strikes-shoppers-companies-downsize-products-without-cutting-costs.html
That’s been happening for a long time. I can’t remember that last time a “half-gallon” of ice cream was a half-gallon.
Actually…….
Costco’s vanilla (best ice cream in the world) is still in an actual 1/2 gal container.
I’ve never been there, but I’m assuming it has to be their own brand.
No shit. Try finding a pound of coffee (packaged). Most are 12 oz., Whole Foods is down to 10 oz.
And the Raspberry Zingers keep shrinking, tiny world anyone?
Stewart’s here in New York has full half-gallons.
A “pound” of bacon is now usually 12 oz.
Yeah, as an avid consumer of junk food I’ve noticed this going on for decades.
“Seven fully-vaccinated Stanford students test positive for coronavirus in a single week – all of whom are symptomatic”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9818525/Seven-fully-vaccinated-Stanford-students-test-positive-coronavirus.html
That’s not good.
*shrug*
Doesn’t bother me.
And they will go home or stay in their rooms for the weekend and most likely, next week, be back chasing tail or dong or whatever they prefer.
This is good. The vaccine is neither safe nor effective. The more it’s widely known, the less likely mandatory vaccination will be in place everywhere.
It also means there isn’t an effective vaccine. Which is definitely not good.
It’s not particularly bad, either. Nor is it much of a surprise.
Well, it is particularly bad for many people.
My rights and freedoms should not be infringed whether the vaccine is effective/safe or not. The ruling class and most of the public think otherwise. Liberty has a better chance of surviving if the vaccines are an unmitigated disaster.
“My rights and freedoms should not be infringed whether the vaccine is effective/safe or not.”
Your rights and freedoms should not be infringed whether any vaccine is effective/safe or not. That’s not the point.
“Liberty has a better chance of surviving if the vaccines are an unmitigated disaster.”
I doubt that.
We have ivermectin
Not if doctors aren’t willing to prescribe it. From what I’ve read, many hospital pharmacies won’t let doctors who want to use it.
They prescribe at peril of their license. The horse stuff can be bought still though.
There are doctors who will. Not too many hospitals though.
And yes, the government is fully to blame here and should be held accountable for the deaths that occur as a result.
“Not too many hospitals though.”
And that’s when it’s most important.
I applaud your optimism on this
^^^
The word “everywhere” was added to the end of the sentence for a reason. That I’m not very optimistic.
Nah, the unvaxed are spreading it supposedly. They’re going to try to vaccinate harder.
Nah, the unvaxed are spreading it supposedly.
But of course I am!
The maskers and vaxxers are already rumbling about another lockdown.
I ain’t playing along this time.
Lockdowns don’t work though.
Neither do masks.
Neither does top-down economics, centralized planning, one-size-fits-all education, etc, etc….hasn’t stopped them before.
You seem to be missing my point.
Ahem! The vax doesn’t seem to be working as described, either.
Isn’t that what I wrote?
Yeah, sorry. I’m just sick of this ‘vid bullshit.
#metoo
How symptomatic? Death’s door? Sniffles?
Probably sniffles, but that means they have an active infection.
It’s well established that the vaxes don’t confer necessarily confer immunity but even if one does get it the symptoms tend to be milder and the delta variant seems to have milder symptoms regardless of vax status. They’ll almost certainly be fine. Absent the political ramifications this is not a big deal.
Shouldn’t have shared that bong.
ADE – a phrase we may all know real soon.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risks-of-rushing-a-covid-19-vaccine/
I’m surprised that article hasn’t been memory holed.
Considering that it’s in SA, which has been alienating its audience(s) since the late 1980s, it might as well be.
Based on everything I have seen, the vax is effective. I don’t care now, and never have, about “cases” or (more accurately) “positive tests”. If you are asymptomatic, you aren’t even a “case”.
What I want to see is how many hospitalized, how many dead, before I say a vax is effective or not. There are people who have been hospitalized, and died, post-vax. Doesn’t mean the vax isn’t effective. “Effective” doesn’t mean “perfect”. It means “lowers the hospitalization and death rate”. And I think the data shows that these vaccines do that.
Safe? Again, a word that needs some definition. At this point, we know zero about long term effects and there are no, zip, zero, nada real clinical trials ongoing. So its probably early to render a final judgment. But what would count as “not safe”? A sore arm, probably not. Permanent chronic conditions in 50% of the people who have it? That would be not safe. We are somewhere in between.
I know several people who had serious heart and / or blood clot problems right after the shot – including my mother.
Now the delta covid is going around or even exploiting the vaccine.
This could get ugly.
And I think the data shows that these vaccines do that.
The data I’ve seen shows that the vaccine is most effective for people in at risk categories (a good thing) and the populations that have been vaccinated skew heavily in the at risk direction (also a good thing), which would seem to indicate that the vaccine is being taken by the people who it will actually help, so the continued COVID panic seems really misplaced.
“QAnon Shaman who stormed the Capitol is negotiating a plea deal after prison psychologists diagnosed him with ‘transient schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and anxiety'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9817959/QAnon-Shaman-plea-negotiations-mental-health-diagnosis-lawyer.html
Solitary confinement has those effects. But this is different. We must keep them hidden and away from the public eye lest they give their own accounts of what that day entailed.
“….stormed the Capitol.”
BS.
The videos show him ambling in and talking with a cop. The cop politely asks everyone to be respectful of the place and buffalo head thanks the cop for allowing them in.
They can fuck off. Based on my formal clinical training in psychology (which consists of dating nutty women, paying a couple therapists, and hours of Dr. Phil) I’d have to start with oppositional-defiant disorder.
Which I think most of us here have.
I might have a good bit of paranoid delusions, if the government were treating me the way they are treating him. Especially after watching hours of video of BLM/antifa thugs throwing molotov cocktails at federal courthouses and burning down local precinct houses.
I don’t think they’d be delusions in that case.
No, he didn’t storm the Capitol.
Yes, he is nuts.
He’s a redditor? No surprise there.
The shirtless tatted up nut job in the horns with the spear and megaphone has mental issues? I don’t believe that for a second.
Come down here for my Labor Day/birthday party. I may dress as that guy.
That’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll do that for Halloween, you know, to piss people off. “Hey, it’s supposed to be scary, right? Witches, devils, hobgoblins.”
Witches, devils, hobgoblins
Fits right in with the current Salem-like mass hysteria.
Since they’re pursuing a plead deal it sounds like they want him released as quickly as possible rather than risking a not guilty by reason of insanity defense, which could result in his indefinite confinement in a mental institution, like Hinckley.
Except Hinkey actually harmed somebody and got out earlier than a normal person would. This guy has already done 4000 times the time and under the worst conditions the feds have to offer. These people are truly sadists.
What do you want to bet that there’s an NDA included in that deal?
A heart wrenching tale of bullying of powerless victims. But I bet you heartless bastards won’t shed a single tear.
And before you smartasses start making snide “Nothing left to cut” comments about “a special envoy to monitor anti-Muslim hate in the U.S.”, you need to be aware of this:
I mean fair is fair. If (((they))) have a special envoy then so should the Muslims.
I wonder if Sarah Jacobs knows that Omar would kill her over her religious beliefs.
I think she has an inkling of that given that she keeps turning down Omar’s invitation to take a ride on Omar’s campaign boxcar.
“Does this smell like Zyklon-B to you ?”
Good work out there today Sara! Time to hit the showers.
The Envoy
Wait, she is a Muslim? I thought brotherly love was a Christian thing.
You’re right.
Well this story involving Special K has imagery in it that is not how I wanted to start the weekned. (I have been surprised at how quiet she has been since she dropped out of the primaries).
Nice to see that a completely useless Senate committee decided to spend a bunch of taxpayer money having hearings in Georgia. I wish some local outfit would gotten a chance to ask Special K why they came to GA when Delaware has even more restrictive voting laws and is so much closer.
Delaware is already solidly Blue, so there’s no real need to make sure the lazy, the clueless, and the dead vote.
In a shocking, unexpected development, it turns out Logan Paul is an asshole.
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1418611126959497218
*faints*
His mum never let him jackoff as a teen. *knocking on bedroom door* ‘Paulie, open the door, I know you’re beating off in there!’.
Severe trauma. Only one way out, kill yourself Paulie, it’s the only way.
Now I really want Woodley to kick his ass. I don’t know which Paul is on the card f9r that fight.
Friday afternoon, and I’ve ordered up an elite assortment of beers from the most expensive snooty beer store in the area. There are NO IPAs, mmkay?
And then.
I’m not even bothering posting any examples, you can do your own research, I’m just going to say that The Atlantic are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. They make The Guardian look reasonable.
because somethingsomething must flow.
Insert menstruation joke here.
Figures you wouldn’t know a good menstruation joke off the top of you head.
The Pope shoots. He scores!
Minnesoda couple buys home on river and then demands that govt does something to stop rivers from doing what rivers do.
I almost want their whining to succeed. If they think the river if fucking their lives up, wait until the Corps of Engineers gets started on the “fix”.
He’s lookin Minnesoda… but feeling California… oh yeah…
What rivers do – see Zhengzhou for a recent example. That city is on the Yellow (Hwang) River, which I learned in grammar school is yellow from the silt deposited from constant flooding along its course (correct me if I’m wrong here). I find it difficult to believe that city has not been flooded repeatedly over the centuries; that tends to happen when you build a city in a flood-prone area. River gonna getcha eventually.
Hoo Boy, I decided to drop the cash and have my Music distributed, Spotify at first, but more platforms as I see fit. A work associate did this and made 180$ last year, 3 songs, very derivitave, I have better than that. Listening to release radar sounds like my music, so fuck it, let’s go, wish me luck!
Great thread here:
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1416096707025252358
If by great, you mean depressing, sure…
I meant informative.
kk here (for those that didn’t get the memo)
Well, this week has been awful. I’m at a very low point.
And because people have ghosted me, or basically told me I should be over losing my dog by now, my misanthropy has increased exponentially.
Anyway. I appreciate reading & commenting on here even though you’re, like, people.
That’s all.
Sorry, about the dog.
I get it. This place has been a much needed outlet since my father passed.
As a new orphan, I think it has been helpful for me to confront my fears of being forced to work in some libertarian mine.
So sorry about your dad, holiness.
Thanks. Sorry about your dog too Double-K.
I don’t understand people.
But we’re still here for you.
Yeah, well, you can’t prove that’s true of ALL of us – only the ones you’ve met IRL. So there!
I’m so sorry about your dogie. Believe me, I understand how hard it can be to get over losing your critter. ::looks around at multiple framed photos of late cat gracing walls of house…and laptop wallpaper::
We’re ‘like people’ not ‘real people’.
I’m having a steak tonight
http://gph.is/17P1Gn9
told me I should be over losing my dog by now
Fuck those people. Next time any of them come crying to you about anything, tell them “Hey, remember when my dog died and you said I just get over it? Well, just get over it, already. And get out of here. I have shit to do.”
^^THIS. We humans are a squidgy lot, and we attach our affections in idiosyncratic ways. I’m astonished that you have people in your life who are that insensitive, frankly.
When my first two dogs died, I bawled at random times for several days. Mostly because I not only missed them, but I cursed myself for not seeing the signs of their illnesses much sooner (which might have saved them, or at least prolonged their lives in comfort for a few more years).
It’s not anyone close to me, I’d say “loose acquaintances via Facebook groups”. They’ve been un-Facebooked by me.
Bitchin’.
I used to be proud of the fact that I could handle any FB assholes who I’d befriended previously without unfriending ’em, and then one day after I had completely nuked my FB account, I realized that I’d unfriended all of ’em.
Don’t regret it, although I miss FB Marketplace (cheap vintage electronics!).
The Cleveland Guardians. I dunno, that sounds sort of racist to me. Fucking retards. Isn’t there a planet somewhere we can send retards to so that they don’t bother anyone else?
Not sure about racist, but I bet it is going to trigger the fuck out of Britany Spears.
Planet Retard?
Dance Off!
Why are we erasing all mention of Native Americans from our current culture?
We are? How?
Taking Indian names off high school, college, pro teams is a start. Leaving on names like Vikings, Fighting Irish, Padres keeps those folks remembered.
No, I meant, HOW?
What if Earth is that planet?
https://www.rt.com/news/530095-hospital-strike-france-mandatory-vaccine/
This is the way.
Excellent.
Hmm. Interesting. We are concerned about unionization here. Pissing off a bunch of our employees isn’t going to help keep the union out.
Job opening in Minnesota. Good pay, benefits package.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/23/rick-dennison-out-as-vikings-o-line-coach-after-refusing-vaccine/
So, what qualifies as a religious exemption? Probably not “God told me not to get the vax or else”. I see a market opportunity for a new church here, can’t think of a good name off the top of my head. Maybe “Church of My Body, My Choice”? Should resonate with the woke crowd.
But I don’t know anything about football.
These days, I’m not sure that’ll actually matter all that much.
That’s the thing about the religious exemption. How do you say somebody doesn’t have the religious beliefs they just told you they had? Its pretty much a free pass.
God help the employer who decides they are going to determine what’s a “real religion” and what isn’t. I can’t think of a better way to build a record for the anti-discrimination lawsuit.
If you go the somewhat obscure religious route, as a bonus a lot of people won’t talk to you any more.
I gotta get some of my Ukrainian Catholic/Eastern Orthodox friends to give me some pointers. I still have way too many people in my life who want to natter at me for no particular reason I can discern.
“Church of Perpetual Indulgence” is probably taken.
Add the word “reformed” to the end of that phrase, and you’re golden.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zZs4NZ5BnJg
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Yay Friday!
The league has also said that any unvaccinated Tier 1 member has to provide a religious or medical reason to not receive it. If they don’t, they would be stripped of their top-tier status and would face extreme protocols
I’m allergic to superstitious whimwham.
https://www.aier.org/article/a-different-perspective-on-cancel-culture/
Without properly oriented social norms, civil society would collapse. Imagine if we did not reprove people for saying racist things. Imagine if your annoying co-worker said what he truly thought about everyone without reproach. Cancel culture may be such a controversial phrase that cannot be salvaged, but the idea that we should ostracize those who unjustly challenge the public order is necessary for a civil society.
I found this article from the AIER rather bizarre given their anti-woke, anti-lockdown stance. They do realize that much of the left thinks they are unjustly challenging the public order at this very moment?
I mean their former Editorial Director once supported deplatforming the Alt-Right but now is upset that he might be deplatformed…
Also who pray tell is going to decide what the prooer social norms are and who should be ostracized?
Also who pray tell is going to decide what the pro[p]
oer social norms are and who should be ostracized?I’ll do it. ’Specially if it has a huge paycheck and allows me to goof off for years at a time without doing anything.
the idea that we should ostracize those who unjustly challenge the public order is necessary for a civil society
Well, let’s start with the stolen bases. Saying racist things, or being annoying and telling people what you really think, is not an “unjust challenge to the social order”.
And, of course, there are a great many things short of ostracizing people that can be done, assuming anything must be done. Perhaps we should start with talking to them about it, instead of going straight to shrieking hysteria?
This has never been true. It a ruse used by commies who have switched from class warfare to race warfare. This is like Mccarthyism on steroids. It was wrong then and it’s even wronger now, that they should have learned the lesson a long time ago.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/president-biden-coming-to-lehigh-valley/article_729b2dac-ebd0-11eb-b760-4f6c1ed19238.html
Stay home Joe, you might catch Covid.
“Oh, please please please . . . “
https://www.kmov.com/news/mask-mandate-returning-to-st-louis-city-county-on-monday/article_0112f22c-ebea-11eb-8fe0-9b9f18d9085b.html
I think it’s time for all of us to become a little more French, don’t you?
(I need to call my cousins in Normandy and get the low-down on what’s going on there . . . )
Oui.
Mais oui! Courage, mes amis!
Looks like a great time not to go visit the in-laws,
I picked my first cantaloupe today. I plan to eat it for breakfast
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Show us your melon.
I’ll take pics when I cut it open. I hope it is fully ripe, I just couldn’t wait.
Why not both?
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My wife is now looking up every ache and pain she has to see if it’s a symptom of the ‘vid. Her hypochondriac tendencies are in full force. ” Remember a few days ago, when I was complaining my earlobes hurt? I wonder if that’s from the ‘vid?” So, I go back through my memory and anything she’s complained about, I blurt out, ” Hey it says here that dry eyes is a symptom!’ It’s fun.
https://quillette.com/2021/07/22/the-rise-of-post-liberal-man/
Liberal societies produce liberal citizens who, in turn, defend and cultivate liberal principles. Liberal Man may survive, however painfully, in illiberal lands; but liberal polities cannot survive without liberal citizens.
In this sense, most of the West’s civilizational challenges stem from the simple fact that liberal societies are no longer producing liberal citizens.
…
Liberal Man struggles against his own ideals. Devoid of great causes, monumental conflicts, and grand passions, the end of history seems to demand its own disruption.
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Ultimately, the greatest threat to liberalism comes from within—and its name is generalized boredom.
As I said before it seems liberalism’s greatest weakness is not its failures but its successes. Having vanquished all of its foes the West sees nowhere to go forward so it decides on suicide…
Apparently not, based on recent historical evidence.
Winston, have you never read any of the works of Bernard Henri-Lévy?
All of this was foretold decades ago.
No, anything in particular I should read?
“so it decides on suicide…” So said Rome, now it’s our turn,
Liberal societies produce liberal citizens.
Bah, wrong. Societies produce nothing.
Liberal persons create liberal societies.
Exactly. BUT – the collection of liberal people constitute the owners and purveyors of culture, and if they’ve any desire to preserve it for even one or two generations, they’ve got to figure out some ways to ensure that culture gets (a) preserved, and (b) transmitted. A written record or principles – a Constitution – is just one step in preservation. The institutions and processes should have some built-in features for that preservation and transmission, as well.
You have to fight efforts to undermine it as soon as they happen. Global warming, second hand smoke, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, all of these were straight up lies. Society let them slide, because they thought it was a good cause. Now, everything’s a lie and they are pretending it’s for a good cause. One drop of poison and you have to throw away the whole bowl of food.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lockdowns-the-reverse-of-disease-control/
In sub-Saharan Africa the economic fallout from lockdown, and the subsequent school closures, means that more than 250million children have been pushed out of education and 50million have lost their free school meals. These children are now deprived of their only substantial, nourishing food for the day. In East Africa, 12.8million children are malnourished from the deteriorating conditions partly brought on by lockdowns.
Malnutrition increases the mortality rate from childhood illnesses like measles. A measles epidemic, far more dangerous to children than Covid-19, is expected to hit Africa this year. The blame for this is shared equally between the lockdown-induced economic decline and a catastrophic decision by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In 2020 the WHO instructed countries to suspend vaccination and treatment campaigns for illnesses including tuberculosis (TB), malaria, polio, meningitis and measles.
As a direct consequence, malaria mortality in Africa will exceed that of Covid-19. Children are at far greater risk of dying from malaria than Covid-19, and an additional 100,000 people are expected to die from this disease.
In 2019, 450,000 died of TB in Africa, far more than the 160,112 who have died from Covid-19 there. Why did the WHO withdraw treatment for this curable disease, especially from children? Despite Covid Cultists claiming that Covid-19 is the worst plague since the Black Death, TB is the leading infectious disease in the world, killing 1.4million per year prior to 2020. Last year, after lockdowns, the death toll for TB rose to more than 1.66million, including 230,000 children.
Whoops.
But then again this will reduce population growth. Bojo and Bill Gates are the sons of men who worried about overpopulation…
Approx. two million people (mostly little brown kids) die per year from malaria. Whenever I point out that the death toll from malaria alone is equal to the death toll from COVID worldwide, most of my friends and acquaintances harrumph and then change the subject.
I’m really disappointed in my age cohort. We were supposed to be orders of magnitude better than this.
wut
So it gets bad enough they can push more vaccines.
Also helps out on the “overpopulation” problem.
That is so fucked up.
*Coughs* bullshit.
That cough sounds bad. Best get yourself tested.
Just did. Results probably Monday. still no word on if I’m getting an additional quarantine or if it depends on my test results. We’ll see.
Actually, the world’s population appears to have increased by the usual 80 – 85 million per year in 2020. Maybe the excess deaths were positive rather than negative, but compared to the normal variation in population increase, it’s hard to tell if that happened.
Dune trailer: eeeehhhhh.
Can someone figure out how not to keep remaking the first book over and over and over again?
I love the Dune universe and the stories, but I don’t need a big explosions production of the same part of the story.
I mean, Miles Teg? maybe do something with him in it? If Hollywood is all about the grit and dirty realism, maybe try one of the stories with the Honored Matres?
Isn’t there a movie about someone who tried to make a Dune movie but failed?
It was a loong week. Nothing bad happened, in fact, things were pretty good. But, it was a loooong week.
I got a Distributor for my music, they are putting my stuff on a bunch of platforms, Spotify is top of the list. I want a larger audience for my 2 Bands/Projects, and maybe make some coin on the side. Quite thrilling, and a great change in the industry allows me to at least put my stuff out there, 25 years ago it wasn’t happening,
Good luck, man. I’d love to see you become an internet rock star.
My Collaberator and I are going to do a music dump on the 2 channels I bought, maybe 60 songs, different genres etc.EDM, Reggae, Rock, you name it, let’s see how it plays out,
/Uli
Don’t post no disco. Disco still sucks. I read that on a stop sign somewhere.
I dig what Spotify does for indie musicians like me, check it out,
Hi Robert,
We made a page for you. It lets people pre-save “Soundtrack” on Spotify right now:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/tepme3/soundtrack
The day your single goes live, it’ll automatically be added to the Spotify library of anyone who pre-saves it. Which increases the chances of your music appearing in personalized Spotify playlists.
Soundtrack being the song I put on spotify,
Federal appeals court finds CDC eviction moratorium unlawful
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that the agency had overreached with its eviction moratorium, which is set to expire at the end of July.
The CDC order, originally enacted in September 2020 and subsequently extended by Congress and President Biden, aims to protect cash-strapped tenants who would face overcrowded conditions if evicted.
But in its Friday ruling, the court rejected the CDC’s two-pronged argument that the eviction freeze was within its authority, or that Congress authorized the measure after the fact as part of its COVID-19 relief legislation.
Seems like a slam-dunk decision; good to get it on the books before it expires, for next time the CDC tries it.
No doubt they’ll appeal.