He’ll die doing what he does best: losing to the Buckeyes.
The Olympics, which has already started, opens today. Wait, what? Why is the opening ceremony not opening the games? Not that anybody will be there, so it doesn’t really matter. The stadium will be empty because everybody running this thing is shit-scared. This man apparently has a death wish. RIP, bitch. These guys understand risk assessment. So naturally they’ll be called stupid by the sheeple. And Boston College did right by somebody. Do these people not freaking understand that natural immunity is a thing and that vaccinating a person who has developed it is a needless risk? Apparently not. Oh, the Yankees also found a new way to shit the bed against their biggest rival. Which is hilarious. And that’s sports.
Drysdale giving tips to a young up-n-comer.
German actor Emil Jannings was born on this day. The kraut shares it with Ethiopian emperor Halie Selassie, TV announcer Arthur Treacher (does anybody remember his fish-n-chips shops growing up? I do.), baseball great Pee-Wee- Reese, test pilot Peter Twiss, javelin thrower Cy Young, SC justice Anthony Kennedy, pitcher Don Drysdale, shock jock Don Imus, former Malaysian PM Najib Razak, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, actor Woody Harrelson, G-n-R guitarist Slash, drug addicted actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, bluegrass great Alison Kraus, fuck rag Monica Lewinsky, football great Terry Glenn, (possibly racist) dog Schottzie Schott, and Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe.
Not an awful list. But now it’s time to move on to…the links!
We’re never getting out, are we? But wait, it gets worse. We’ve left behind those who definitely deserve a chance to escape. Nice fucking job, government. Real nice.
It’s free, so why not take it? Oh wait, because you’re a shitbag, that’s why. The same goes for people sitting on their ass collecting enhanced unemployment benefits when there’s plenty of work out there.
It’s a metaphor.
This is perhaps the best long-term scam in American history. But don’t worry. They’re “essential”.
Wow, these people really wanted their vaccines. Oh wait, the media is actually telling the truth now. Let’s see what happens next. I think it will become a bloodbath, but I hope I’m wrong.
So I guess he was right? Sadly, he chose the wrong time and place to explain his decision.
Wait, why is he being charged? Based on what I’ve seen, he deserves a medal. Streets are for cars, not mobs.
This lady understands science better than Chicago pols or the teachers union who runs that city.
Chicago Public Schools doubles down on being retarded. Let’s be honest here: anything short of the stupidest decision possible would be a surprise from these cretins.
The same could be said of Texas, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and just about anywhere else. Please, stay away unless you’re leaving your failed politics at the door.
CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!!!!!!! You know, because neither one has won anything of note in…forever. But it’s gonna be fun to watch this shot show unfold as a local outsider.
I won’t know what this feels like for the next several days. Although it’s a lovely song. Enjoy it.
And get out there and have a great Friday and an even better weekend, friends!
The Olympics, which has already started, opens today. – This is the year Romania gets more medals than the US. I feel it.
If an Olympics happens and nobody watches it, did it really happen?
I would be happy if the US wins the same number of games as Romania in soccer.
I’d like to soccer-kick that one purple-haired one straight in the cunte but maybe that’s just me.
Mind the 6″ veiny clitoris if you do so.
Gross. And also, very true.
AAM Firsts are for octogenarians
We’re never getting out, are we? – since Romania already had the withdraw parade everyone is officially out. You people can’t go back in now. If you do Romania may go back in a while later and the next withdrawal will fuck up the traffic in Bucharest yet again and we cannot have that.
It’s China’s turn.
If the Chinese don’t it will be a sure sign of how much smarter they are than us (politically).
Inscrutable.
Ohio State will be no problem for Harbaugh.
After last year, Day might hang a hundred on them.
So I guess he was right? Sadly, he chose the wrong time and place to explain his decision. – and they say divorce by email is shitty behavior … better than death
“Text Message Breakup” (song begins at 2:40). NSFW lyrics.
Relevant
Also relevant
Does it really count as mowing him down if there was no mower deck attached?
No… really?
Did she poke him in the eyes? Ohhhh… that says mow with a “W.”
+1 Nyuk nyuk
I’m as shocked as you are.
I want to live in the post-apocalypse now. It’s the waiting and creeping authoritarianism that’s killing me.
So fellow rebels. Have we figured out code phrases and identification codes. Would you let a hep new libertarian rebelrouser in on these codes?
Not falling for it, Fed.
Greetings, fellow conspirators!
Ha. The joke’s on you. Me, Banjos, OMWC, Swissy, SF, C, Playa Manhattan, Mexican Sharpshooter, Warty, and the rest are all feds.
And you’re under arrest.
Everything posted here is a work of fiction. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
So…just the cops, prosecutors, and probably a jury? Great.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
Preet says hello.
[furtive golf clap]
I really don’t want to spoil anything.
“Podesta.”
Festus hears and nods.
You’re under arrest too. Get in the black van or else, buddy.
If you can’t be bothered to send a black helicopter …
Oh they’re there. You just can’t see them.
Better than the alternative white van, I’d wager.
“I never gave my opinion about it. I just said, ‘This is the school rule,'” Hafley said. “If you don’t want to get it, I’ll support you. We had one player who didn’t want to get it, and we helped find him a new home.”
The school rule is tyrannical, medically ignorant horseshit.
Yep. It completely ignores natural immunity and waves away bodily autonomy without a care in the world.
The people carrying these orders out are the useful idiots we’ve been warned about our entire lives.
And the people following the orders are the sheep that refuse to just say “no”.
Unfortunately that includes my sister since her university is also requiring this nonsense. She is 19, and healthy with no comorbidities. I told her every way in which she could get an exception and she still went along with the rule. But she did at least get the J&J, which I understand to be a traditional vaccine as opposed to the mrna bs.
Go on…
Completely sucks. My healthy 20 year old son is in the same boat. On a full ride, entering his third year, getting the jab because he won’t risk losing the scholarship. This, after he was quarantined for 2 weeks last semester after tedting positive (completely asymptomatic). Too bad he doesn’ t play football, nobody’s finding “new homes” for actual scholars.
Same boat here. Son had it with the rest of us in the winter, no symptoms and is a big healthy kid, but we’re screwed because we can’t risk his scholarship for soccer.
I still have to wear the shame muzzle at work. Government site, natch. Everywhere else is free. Who’s running this clown-show?
This guy:
https://thegreatcomicbookheroes.blogspot.com/2014/10/zippy-pinhead.html?m=1
Hah! Love those underground Comix! Zippy was a later addition, though. Used to try to collect them.
Confirmed.
The military has retained the authority to carry out strikes in support of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces
No, we are never getting out of there.
Have we ever fully gotten out of anywhere we’ve intervened?
Canada?
“Just the tip.”
Grenada?
Russia
France (only the dead remain).
Kent State
Panama ?
Huh. I have a few questions…
As he approached the checkpoint, Pardis put his foot on the accelerator to speed through. He was not seen alive again.
Villagers who witnessed the incident told the Red Crescent the Taliban shot his car before it swerved and stopped. They then dragged Pardis out of the vehicle and beheaded him.
I don’t see why anyone over there would trust us anymore if we don’t even attempt to protect assets that assist us.
Yep. The Afghans are Flounder and our government is Otter.
And the conversation between the two is exactly the same.
The Afghans are the evil Frat and the Government is Dean Wormer.
The USG under Obama also failed with the Iraqi translators who suffered the same fate under ISIS, and are despised by the Iraqi government. Trump didn’t do any better for either nation. Rebel Scum is correct.
Lessons of Vietnam.
Commissioners — all Republicans — last week voted to award more than $500,000 to dozens of county employees. It ranged from $25,000 for administrators to $2,000 for cleaning staff. All recipients got at least $1,000.
Useless parasites are as useless parasites do.
Vaccine 39% effective at halting virus transmission, 91% against serious illness, Israel’s health ministry says
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/1626980447-vaccine-39-effective-at-halting-virus-transmission-91-against-serious-illness-israel-s-health-ministry-says
So it’s much much less effective than previously estimated. Since it’s Israel they really cannot blame the unvaccinated. They had the fastest and most comprehensive vaccine program. Welp. I no longer care if I or anyone else gets this virus. That is, if I ever cared.
I care about people getting the Fauci Flu as I cared about people getting any other flu or cold.
Remember when they said you were a crazy conspiracy theorist and silenced you on Big Tech platforms if you floated the possibility that the vaccine wasn’t completely effective?
Remember what?
I try to love my neighbor as myself.
Mrs. Swiss is OK with that?
/not judging
That song is not bad but you needed to add a “Mullet Alert” before posting it.
Yes, they all need to get their hair to look like George Hurleys Unit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSv8FVJtbAk&ab_channel=mrbriefcaseMUSIC
(Hurley is the drummer, not a pirate!)
I didn’t know that was an actual person who did anything besides selling fish ‘n chips.
And the fish and chip chops still exist! There’s one left here in Ohio (the second to the last one did not survive 2020). I did see some stories floating around that Nathan’s bought the brand, so they may make a reappearance in the next couple of years (or in your grocer’s freezer).
I think the Cassano’s store in lovely Drexel, OH still sells Arthur Treacher’s
I refuse to eat at Cassano’s whenever I’m back home. Never again after dropping “Mom’s” from the name of the Big Cheese years ago.
Their misogyny has been noted.
I refuse to eat there over a couple of botched orders from the N. Main store. After a heated email exchange with “Lori” from Cassano’s. berating their service, the product, and generally maligning the Cassano’s name I learned that I was emailing Lori Cassano, VP, and daughter of Vic. Not some customer service dimwit that happened to be named Lori.
And now you know….the rest of the story.
The Nathan’s deal has moved forward.
https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2021/06/17/arthur-treacher-s-closes-one-of-its-remaining-two-locations
I remember reading that one of the stores still had boxes of original branded drinkware and such that they were using up.
I didn’t either. I thought it was just some caricature of a Limey name. Had no idea it came from the guy who played Jeeves.
He played a whole bunch of butlers in 1930s movies.
Mom, when I grow up I want to play a succession of Butlers in the moving pictures! Capital idea Son!
There’s also Eric Blore and Robert Greig
I remember it was the meal you can not make at home.
Do you think the drummer said, at any point, “but I don’t wanna be a pirate!”
Heh.
One of my favorite bands from that era.
Also didn’t want to be a pirate
I was expecting this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRJ6jQfap0
Did someone say Pirate Metal?
BEER BEER!
Some people want to be a pirate
While people across Cuba protested shortages of food and medicine amid a higher number of Covid-19 cases, rising prices due to inflation and hourslong power outages, many also chanted “libertad” (freedom) and “We want change,” while holding signs that read, “Down with the dictatorship.”
In a country like Cuba where the government has significant control over many aspects of life, including industries, wages, imports and prices of goods, it’s all intertwined.
Nothing like a little lickspittle liberalism to get my blood flowing in the morning.
Obviously the protesters want the government to have total control in order to achieve their freedom.
“FWEEDOM” The President does hail from the Caribbean, after all.
Our treatment of the Afghan translators is shameful. Retaliations against them have been going on for some time. Congress has had plenty of time to fix that.
Yeah, but they simply don’t give a fuck.
I mean, there’s a possible alternative explanation. But I sure as hell can’t think of it.
These are not the first people we’ve fucked over in one of foreign adventures. With that track record, you have to be a fool to help us.
Kurds, Hmong, Montanards, Iraqi Shia circa GW1 all the way back to various indian tribes in the olden days. Trust us at your peril.
Horrorshow avatar, droog.
He does look ready for a little of the old ultraviolence.
And it’s not the first translators we’ve screwed over this way. Man… it’s almost like there’s a reason the common man in certain countries may not trust the US government.
“Certain countries”. Add the U.S. to that list.
But I thought you Democratic party was all about helping refugees
They can’t be seen letting in ppl who risked their lives to help us when there are thousands of refugees on our own soil who risked their lives so we could help them.
Only “refugees” that they think are likely to vote for them.
Actual refugees, such as Cubans that likely hate socialism, are off the table.
Human Rights Museum Reopening to Vaccinated Visitors
https://www.chrisd.ca/2021/07/15/human-rights-museum-reopening-to-vaccinated-visitors/
It’s like rain on your wedding day.
A herpes sore before your first orgy.
Then, “he had told her he wanted a divorce, and she made a statement that she was going to run over him and kill him,” J.T. Palmer, the Pottawatomie County Undersheriff told the news outlet.
A woman of her word, I guess.
I just… can’t…
“You ain’t from around here are you…”
Not all of Oklahoma is like Tiger King, I swear!
“It wasn’t called for by the opposition, let alone the government. It just kind of happened,” Bustamante said. “I think that supposes real challenges if you wanted to channel this into something. How do you do that?”
Where are their LEADERS?
You can’t have an authentic political movement without a credentialed elite to show the way. Those peons don’t even have a five year programme of hopey change. “Leave us alone” isn’t a recognized political philosophy.
Speaking of the virus, as we always do, the wife, who is a D and works in the ivory tower, piped up with “was it worth all this for a bunch of 89-year-olds?” last night. I was a bit surprised. I mean, she knows how I feel about the whole, stupid thing, but I don’t that is what is moving the needle, so to speak.
I think the walls are starting to crack.
Don’t call your wife the D word
I laughed, thanks Pie
Comment of the week right there.
*crowns Pie with laurel wreath*
Well we have to also include removal of OMB too.
Problems at China nuclear power plant are serious enough to warrant shutdown, French co-owner warns
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/22/china/edf-taishan-nuclear-plant-china-intl-hnk/index.html
It’s China. They’ll just get some D10s in there to cover it with dirt and act like it never existed. Then they’ll use slave labor to build a new plant a few miles down the road.
Strategic dam failure is a better option. Wash away the evidence AND witnesses.
They can’t call it a failure though.
“Release of natural resources” or “watershed reintegration program” FTW!
Damn, Sloppy, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore!
Er, Sloopy. Although sloppy works – thanks, autocorrect.
Chernobyl 2: Oriental Boogaloo?
*Boogaroo
FIFY
https://thereload.com/a-ghost-gun-community-brought-to-life-in-the-florida-heat/
Nice t shirt.
Oh THERE’S an event that will be completely free of undercover ATF agents.
Free of people who *aren’t* undercover ATF agents.
I don’t know about attending, but let’s just say that if I were at such an event, my phone wouldn’t come anywhere near it…
I want the shirt.
Cool!
Of course that twat Pincus had to put in an appearance. The ego never rests with him…
The Big XII was a mistake.
No conference should accept UT.
They’re a cash cow. They’re gonna enhance any conference they’re in.
And the Big Ten should go after them, OU, Kansas, and Notre Dame all at once.
Well ackshually they are a cash bull.
By “enhance” you mean “destroy” of course.
Though if you want to get while the getting’s good there is money to be made.
I wouldn’t want Notre Dame. We could dump Rutgers and Maryland and take Kansas and OU.
If they drop one they can really court the Chinese market.
Chicago Public Schools doubles down on being retarded.
My money is on mendacity over retardation.
Retarded mendacity is also on the table.
What she misses most is the diversity in the Bay Area — the state of Montana is 88% white.
I suspect she misses the uniformity of thought a lot more than she misses the diversity of color. Being in the minority is something new and frightening.
I remember sensing the opposite as a child, and still instinctively notice it at ~50.
When you grow up in South GA in the country or a small town, the “normal” context is like 35-50% black. So that’s basically how my subconscious got programmed. If I’m travelling for work (or whatever) in say CT or WI or SD, then I still get this “where are all the black people?” thing in the back of my mind.
I spent 4 or 5 days in Atlanta, and I’d say we only saw about 10 other white people the whole time, at least in the actual city. Every restaurant, we we were the only white people there. It didn’t bother me none, but it was notable.
Ha. I know – whole chunks of my life (and my kids’ lives) are that way. I know some folks who didn’t grow up like that who you can tell are seriously uncomfortable being actual, statistical racial minorities within a particular context. It’s funny except they’re all utterly convinced that I’m a racist just because of who I am.
Unrelated: Atlanta is not Georgia.
I grew up in Oxnard, in the seventies. It was at least 80% Mexican. My elementary school had exactly one blonde girl.
I’ll bet she was very popular, even more so than the 11 year-olds with nascent boobies.
I still remember her name and I have a story about running into her later, but I ain’t got time to tell it (again) now.
My white privilege means I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was abroad and at times was probably the only white for miles.
My white privilege means that I give not a whit for your grievance mongering. Die in a fire.
Grievance mongering gives some people a purpose in life. Sad, but true.
In the Cleveland area it varies wildly by neighborhood. Certain areas are lily white (assuming you count Eastern Europeans, Irish, German, and Italians as white), others are 70-80% black. Sporting events, bars, clubs and the like are the middle ground. I still remember getting the side-eye when I took a date to a jazz club back in the late 90’s, as we were the only people of pallor in the establishment.
“People of Pallor” We need to start using that. I’m only half-joking.
Was it the Dexter Lake Club?
Maybe she prefers human turds instead of sheep turds on the streets.
Don’t talk about city officials like that!
Well… at least she likes the outdoors.
I’m thinking a commemorative triathlon event.
I am trying to watch youtube in peace and people keep pestering me on webex
Just use the ad-blocker or am I missing something once again?
Good morning, Sloop!
That’s a lotta lynx!
I sincerely hope you are wrong about Cuba. It ‘s time for them to get a chance to live.
Excellent song choice! Those dudes were solid.
That’s a lotta lynx!
I thought I’d finish the week with a flourish.
Those dudes were solid.
I’ve been meaning to play that song for a couple months now but something else always popped into my head as I was drafting the post. I finally remembered today, thankfully.
Once it goes to clawing at people’s car windows so they can pull them out of the car and beat them up they’ve gone from protestors to assaulters and it’s self-defense to step on the gas and get the hell out of there.
^
But that won’t stop your Democrat overlords from railroading you.
One more reason to relocate to states with stand your ground laws. Remember the vet in Texas who shot and killed some dipshit protester who pointed an AK at him? Off scot free (as well he should be).
Well…actually…
Ham sandwiches?
This is the law pretty much anywhere in the whole country. You just don’t have to try and run and hide first there. Somebody points an AK at me, I can legally shoot them dead even in Cali.
They recently indicted him. It’s a bullshit move and the grand jury proceeding was allegedly filled with irregularities, but the process is the punishment. Fuck Travis County with a rusty chainsaw.
The governor should pardon him, and then take a selfie flipping off the Travis County DA.
Punishing the innocent and rewarding the guilty isn’t what being a prosecutor’s about or shouldn’t be anyway.
Yeah, prosecutors should be beating down the multitudes and scoffing at the wise.
What you did there was seen,
/Farewell
These are not the first people we’ve fucked over in one of foreign adventures. With that track record, you have to be a fool to help us.
“We’re back, baby!” says President Biden.
The irony of Trump being more honest with the Kurds than any other president.
Lance Trebesch, CEO of Eventgroove, said diversity seems like it’s actually gotten slightly better since he moved to Bozeman 17 years ago from the Bay Area, but he believes the city and state still have a long way to go. Hopefully, the growing tech community, coupled with an emerging remote workforce, should help.
“We must lead the unenlightened to their salvation, kicking and screaming, if need be. We’ll fix this place, but good!”
The photo caption on the divorce story: Chanelle Lewis allegedly killed her husband, Christopher Lewis, after arguing over food and a divorce in Wanette, Oklahoma. I will say, that is a woman I would not have argued with about food.
“In a country like Cuba where the government has significant control over many aspects of life, including industries, wages, imports and prices of goods, it’s all intertwined. Independent journalist Yoani Sánchez tweeted, “We were so hungry, we ate our fear.”
Surprisingly honest from a propaganda rag like NBC. I wonder what their angle is?
I wonder what their angle is?
Cuba was not real communism.
A lady my wife talks to at her gym is an HR Director and complete vaccine NAZI. She plans to make vaccines mandatory in her company as soon as the FDA completely approves it.
I had 2 thoughts:
1. If the FDA approves that shit for normal use, they are completely corrupt.
2. No. Fire me. See you in court.
I wouldn’t be talking to her for very long. And I think she might not want to talk to me after I expressed my thoughts about her.
Know your enemy.
Fire everyone involved.
In the Francis Howell School District about 35 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri, teachers met in September 2020 to determine the curriculum the students would follow for the coming year. Advising them was equity consultant LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri.
In addition to discussing the curriculum, King tried to impress on the teachers the importance of teaching history the “right way.”
“This is not a safe space,” but rather a ‘racialized space,’” King said. “In many ways, a safe space is a space where white people tell us how not racist they are. And this is not that space.”
A video of the curriculum planning session surfaced on Rumble and was submitted by “wokeatfhsd,” who offered this description of the video.
For Blackjack, et. al.:
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1417318344219185153
That’s cool, thanks.
I think that was Fontana #1, the tri bowl, great set of pools,
Looked like a cool bowl. If Fontana looks like that, we’re gonna go skate it.
I expected on of those videos where a hawk comes at the end and grabs the critter
Yup.
If an Olympics happens and nobody watches it, did it really happen?
Ask the losers in the “Wealth Transfer” competition.
Off topic, but I wanted to ask any potentially knowledgeable glibbies. I’ve been cleaning up some of the brush and branches around my property and have seen a few vine like plants wrapped around the trunks and branches of my trees. Most are around 1 inch diameter at the base but there is one I saw that was about a 6 inch diameter. Since they are so coiled around the limbs of the trees, it’s nearly impossible to fully pull them off, so I’ve just cut them at the ground level. Will that kill off the vine and eventually cause it to drop off the tree?
Cut it at the ground. Cut it again about 4′ up so that suckers from the base cut don’t have the old path to climb up. Paint the stump with Tordon, or you can try Roundup concentrate but will probably have to do it a few times. Let the part up in the tree dry up and in a couple of years it will disentegrate.
Handle checks out.
^^^^
although I have some poison oak like that and the vine is still there wrapped around the fir tree 15-20 years later.
That’s a question for Suthen. He lives in the land of bitey, constrictive things…
Get some big assed broad from OK and tell her the vine wants a divorce.
Hope it’s not Chinese Wisteria. Once that shit gets established it is nearly impossible to eradicate – it spreads via underground runners and will strangle every tree in the neighborhood. Ask me how I know.
Wild grape vines? Pretty common in my neck of the woods (eastern PA). Yes they will choke and kill a tree but it takes them years to do it. You can’t really pull them out of the tree. You can chop them at the root and wait for them to dry out. They are tenacious and can regrow from a solid chopping. good luck!
I fight that battle every spring and fall.
The dried up stuff will fall off eventually. I’ve seen midsized tulip trees pulled over by vines.
I’ve had a long running battle with Kudzu. It was bad when I moved in reaching up to the canopy of some trees. I now go out early spring and late fall, cutting what I find to ground level. The trees canopy has recovered.
Overshared yesterday. I usually like to keep it light-hearted on this forum. Ramen it is this morning.
No such thing, man. Take it from me.
On the way to the dog park, I drive past the Saratoga Automobile Museum. Not surprisingly, the parking lot is often used for car shows. The other day, it must have been the Tesla Club having one. It was odd to see, since all the cars looked alike. More like a dealership lot than a car show.
Did you stop and sniff some farts?
Heck no. Lily wants to go to the park NAO!
Good to see she’s got you trained. Babs used to jump up and lick my ear at every stop sign on the way to the dog park.
Look, mine has electric door handles!
Wow, yours is a different color!
I got sick of waiting for the coal power to trickle in, so I converted mine to run on gasoline.
I wish I had enough money.
I am taking much pleasure in watching the decline of the Woke Football League.
The NFL just informed clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week season in 2021 due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will FORFEIT and be credited with a loss for playoff seeding, per sources.
Massive implications.
Reading the memo, the telling part is that the only time there’s a forfeit is if there’s a breakout among unvaccinated players. If the outbreak is among vaccinated players, the league will reschedule the game and not penalize the club.
Looks like some sports elites are going to be faking some ‘vid vaccines.
Boy am I ever getting sick of this “SUM NOTZEE DUN RUNNED OVER PEESFULL PROTESTURZ 4 NO REEZUN!!!11!!” bullshit.
Florida passed a law recently granting immunity to motorists that hit protestors in the street if they’re blocking traffic.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/florida-s-new-anti-riot-bill-protects-drivers-who-plow-into-crowds-of-protesters/ar-BB1fR58B
Lefty shithead propagandists of course frame this as “Rethuglikkkan Trumpista governor wants peaceful protestors to DIE!!!!” but fuck every last one of them. Stay out of the fucking street you subhumans.
Dude, it was a Bayerische Motoren Werker , how much more Nazi could it be?
A VW?
“Peaceful protesters” should stay out of the road/right-of-way if they are not permitted to be there.
“I want a divorce.”
“No. It’s ’til death do us part.”
“Colorado health authorities are investigating a possible outbreak of the plague after a 10-year-old died from the ancient disease earlier this month for the first time since 2015.
The plague, a disease caused by bacteria most often spread by fleas, has been confirmed in six different counties, according to lab results from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9817609/Girl-10-dies-plague-cases-confirmed-six-Colorado-counties.html
“A ‘superbug’ fungus that is resistant to common drugs has been found in two hospitals and a nursing home, health officials have revealed.
The fungus was identified at a nursing home in Washington, DC and two hospitals in Dallas, Texas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The two outbreaks included about 120 patients in total.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9815437/Superbug-fungus-spread-two-cities-health-officials-say.html
Apparently, other pathogens are sick of the the virus getting all the attention.
So the kid died in both 2015 and now?
Black Plague: Don’t Call it a Comeback.
It’s better than the White Plague that is everywhere.
Without plague, there would be no IPAs.
“A sex toy will thrust its way into space this summer as a Japanese adult firm sets out to find out how the device performs during spaceflight and in zero gravity.
The space shot is a collaboration between male masturbation aid designer Tenga and civilian spaceflight company Interstellar Technologies Inc.
The ‘Tenga Rocket’ will lift off from the Hokkaido Spaceport in north Japan within the next month, depending on weather conditions, and reach an altitude of 62 miles up.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9817653/Space-Japanese-firm-launch-sex-toy-orbit-summer-research-purposes.html
“Single Japanese man, 51, almost masturbates himself to death after suffering a stroke moments after he ejaculated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9810615/Japanese-man-masturbates-death.html
I blame anime.
“It comes after a 22-year-old student in Taiwan died from a stroke while having sex with his girlfriend in 2017.”
Damn that girl must be good.
>> suffering a stroke moments after he ejaculated”
(almost) died doing what he loved.
Live by the stroke, die by the stroke.
Pretty much!
He didn’t see that coming.
Or going in Japanese.
One doesn’t come, but instead goes with the idea that one goes to another more heavenly world.
He was coming and going?
It’s Karma, baby
I love how the MT article frames it solely as “Kali refugees are driving up home prices!” I’m sure that’s one small piece, but most residents just don’t want shitty smug socialists swarming like locusts. It’s been a while since CO got Kalifornicated and I still see “Colorado Native” and “No Vacancy” bumper stickers all over the place.
But the good people of kali are on the right side of history and that is all that matters
Strangling travellers on the roadside?
+1 Thugee
Posted this a while back… but…
Cleveland Doesn’t Need Your Love—It Needs Your Fire
Us stupid flyover rust belt hicks don’t appreciate the genius that comes from a real live New Yorker coming here to help us improve.
Uffda.
Thriving public sector?
Dumb donors won’t just give money and let us smart people do smart things.
Of course she believes the city can only be saved by government experts.
Alternate headline: “Stupid self-absorbed moron shocked when locals don’t fall to their knees and kiss her feet simply for existing.”
I instantly hate the person who wrote that.
Apparently religious freedom is no longer a Virginia value, which is terribly ironic.
That “rather than protect values, the [VVA] forces people of faith to adopt a particular government ideology under threat of punishment. [The VVA] purports to forbid businesses and organizations from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, but in practice it tramples on the free exercise and free speech rights of religious ministries like Plaintiffs.
“The [VVA] went into effect July 1, 2020, and now threatens the biblical foundations that plaintiffs were established upon because the act lacks any effective religious exemptions for these ministries. A day before signing [the VVA], the Governor [Ralph Northam] signed HB 1429, which requires the ministries and other employers that provide health insurance to cover medical treatment that promotes a certain ideology about gender and sexuality.
“Specifically, it mandates that if the ministries wish to offer health insurance to their employees, they must cover sex reassignment and ‘gender affirming’ medical procedures — actions that violate their religious convictions.” …
The VVA “puts the Ministries in an impossible position: They must either abandon the religious convictions they were founded upon, or be ready to face investigations, an onerous administrative process, fines up to $100,000 for each violation, unlimited compensatory and punitive damages and attorney-fee awards, and court orders forcing them to engage in actions that would violate their consciences …
“Even merely posting their religious beliefs on their own websites could subject the ministries to prosecution and exorbitant fines. These penalties could easily exceed a million dollars, ruin the ministries financially, and make continuing their Christian missions impossible.”
It would almost be worth it to proclaim oneself a Muslim just to protest these laws vigorously and fuck with the little minds behind them.
Northam just keeps getting better and better,
I really don’t like that shithead.
“Israeli company is set to become first in the world to launch clinical trials of an ORAL COVID-19 vaccine
The oral vaccine targets three proteins on the virus rather then the single spike protein that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines target
Researchers say it is faster, cheaper and easier to manufacture than injectable and can be distributed to poorer countries”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9815309/Israeli-company-set-launch-clinical-trials-ORAL-Covid-vaccine.html
They’re gonna sneak it into the water and it’ll make all the frogs gay.
I totally see North Africa going with one of (((their))) vaccines.
I’m sorta drunk but I believe that I am wearing the most comfortable cargo shorts EVER! Sans-a-belt even. Thanks Judi and thank you Costco! 32 that works for 32. Shorts that fit. Inconceivable!
The first shorts that can keep your enormous cock under control eh?
Well, there is that.
You are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
Ron DeSantis has Fox News, but we have everyone else.
Florida will be blue in 2022.
Good luck…
“Joe Biden has been accused of acting like ‘a Cuban dictator’ in a letter signed by 190 House Republicans, after his administration moved to force tech companies to clamp down on coronavirus misinformation.
A letter to the president was written on Thursday by Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the three top Republicans in the House – Leader Kevin McCarthy, Whip Steve Scalise and Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik.
‘The federal government’s ongoing efforts to pressure private companies to censor speech that it disagrees with is alarming and an affront to the First Amendment,’ they wrote, in a letter obtained by Fox News.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9817185/House-Republicans-tell-Biden-hes-like-Cuban-dictator-social-media-censorship-campaign.html
There is no way Biden could give two hour speeches like Castro.
I watched something on Castro recently. I never knew he was such a charmer. Of course, that was a facade.
He believed fucking teenage girls would keep him young. He had a full time crew of lackeys out combing the streets for nubile nymphets. It was said he had to have one after lunch and one before bed everyday.
Though I wouldn’t exactly say he charmed them; probably more like “you’ll fuck me if you want your family to stay out of prison”.
He probably did offer them a decent meal – that’s pretty charming to someone kept hungry.
What I watched was some old doc about him and the revolution and periods after. The film crew did not exactly ask tough questions.
The CBC?
His son seems to be charming enough, at least to Canadians.
I love how the MT article frames it solely as “Kali refugees are driving up home prices!”
No kidding. The home prices are just the beginning. They get here and immediately start moaning, “Why don’t they do [insert thing ubiquitous in California]?”
And, since property taxes are about a tenth of what they were paying in California, what do they care if the only double for everybody else?
Friday Funbags invites death by Snoo-Snoo.
https://archive.li/MYWaD
I remember Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips. I also remember today’s song, still a favorite of mine.
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/lansdale/creditors-foreclose-montgomery-mall-118m-owed-reports
Another covid victim.
I’m sure there will be many more. We still haven’t seen the worst from the shutdowns yet.
Nice. I have to wonder about the American Dream Mall that went up in the meadowlands. I’m sure they have plenty of time but boy oh boy was their timing terrible. They have an amusement park with some sweet coasters too.
That thing is a disaster. Still love when through one of its many incarnations it was called Xanadu.
I haven’t looked at the financing recently, but I think it has a bunch of state and/or federal guarantees on lots of the debt.
Might be the only infrastructure project that took longer than the Big Dig to finish. Still haven’t figured out exactly how to get there – the access roads appear to have been designed by the little kid in “The Family Circle”.
I ogled it at a distance this spring from the brand new Vince Lombardi Service Plaza. Rumor has it there’s even an Abu Dhabi style ski hill inside it.
brand new Vince Lombardi Service Plaza
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the locus of a commuter parking lot from whence I boarded a NJ Transit bus on my way to the glorious Big Apple. Haven’t seen the new improved facility, nor am I likely to.
The last thing I want to do is get anywhere near the Meadowlands.
Let’s see – football game, weekend summer traffic coming from NYC. Hey let’s go to the mall! Should only take us an hour or so to go three miles.
I know this is too local…
About 25 years ago the wife and I went to a concert featuring the Three Tenors. Living in Queens at the time, left in plenty of time to get there…
3 1/2 hours later we arrived just after intermission.
One of the shopping centers in the wealthier suburbs went to the bank last year here in Cleveland, and there’s rumblings about several of the other malls. I mean, Amazon can only buy so many malls to tear down for distribution centers (so far, that’s been the fate of two of them here).
Same here. The big mall can’t land a fish. Five times so far tried and failed and now one of the grocery chains is trying it on. Of course they are moving from the inner city so the usual assholes are howling about “food deserts” and such whatnot.
The local mall is adding housing. The old Sears will be replaced with stores on the main level and residential above in hopes of having local clients.
That’s evolution in action.
It’s the new trend in the shopping areas here. First floor is shopping, second floor and up are condos and office space. Of course, they sell the condos at over $200k, far out in the suburbs.
Ever since Dawn of the Dead (1978) I’ve wanted to live in a mall. But only a mall with a gun shop.
Chopping Mall for me.
You can play spot the celebrity look alike.
Perhaps you should just respectfully represent your country while engaging in sportsmanship and fair competition.
In a five-page letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), more than 150 athletes, academics and social justice advocates urged reform of Rule 50 in the Olympic Charter and a similar rule governing the Paralympics, which has long banned political protest on Olympic sites.
They have joined Lakers star LeBron James who used his media company to blast the ban, accusing the IOC of “silencing athletes” as Breitbart News reported.
Former U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos (pictured top), who were expelled from the Olympic Stadium in 1968 after raising their fists on the podium, are included amongst the signatories.
All I’m saying, is that I wouldn’t necessarily be upset if LeBron suffered a stroke that reduced his brain function to the level of a 4 year old.
You mean increased, right?
ZING!
are you sure that wouldn’t be an improvement?
This from the guy who led the outcry against an assistant nba coach who publicly supported the Hong Kong protestors.
I don’t think there’s any doubt where that douchenozzle would land on the issue of gulags.
I’d like to punch him square in the nose but with a thirty second head start afterward.
Has flopping been added to the Olympics.
Bikini models
Oh Polly Neena Swimwear SS2020 Fashion Show Miami Swim Week 2021 Full Show 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkntiHiS02g
And italian beauty contest
Small Miss Perfect 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFfRWpuDR0w
A few of those models actually have T&A, unlike most runway models that are bags of antlers.
Actually what I noticed in half a year of putting bikini videos in the links is that swimsuit models are much shapely in the right places than usual runway supermodels.
Runway models are clotheshangers, you’re not supposed to be looking at them. It’s not their job.
Bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6Oq3PKlUc
warning they sneaked a dude in this one
I have no idea which “model” it is, but there is a particular style of Tesla which, every time I see one from the front, looks like some sort of crappy VW-based ’70s kit car. Very impressive, Tesla design staff.
HEY! My car was designed by the guy who designs those Tesla go karts!
He’s probably the guy of many other girls’ dreams as well.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15664653/ghosted-one-night-stand-guy-of-my-dreams/
Which explains why he’d rather be out fucking all of them rather than getting tied down again.
Maybe he just doesn’t care.
Libertarian moment?
The Czech Parliament approved Wednesday a constitutional amendment recognizing the right to use arms in self-defense and to protect others, bucking the trend of stricter gun regulation in the European Union, CT24 television reported.
The upper house ratified the new article of the constitution, which had already passed the lower house.
The amendment states that “the right to defend one’s life or the life of others, even with the use of weapons, is guaranteed.”
“Disarming citizens does not bring more safety, because criminals get their weapons illegally,” Martin Cervicek of the center-right Civic Democratic Party said before the vote.
Cervicek, a critic of tighter gun laws across the EU, rejected the assertion that the amendment is merely symbolic, calling it possible “insurance for the future.”
Should be written more in the vein of our 2A but I guess this is a step in the right direction.
I become more convinced everyday that post-Soviet Eastern Europe is the place to be. The horrors of socialism are still fresh in everyone’s mind.
Pie may disagree.
Pie may disagree. – I certainly do.
The horrors of socialism are still fresh in everyone’s mind. – not as much as would be ideal
There are people that pine for Stalin in Russia, so don’t assume that everyone views those days as horrible. Sure, our kind, would treat it that way, but that ain’t everyone.
I just got a settlement check from the Walmart Class action suit, I’m rich! it’s a check for 37 cents, I love America….
Add that to the 0.16 you saved on your summer BBQ, and you’ve got enough for a pint of gas. We live in such prosperous times!
Hah! I got a check from the Federal Government for 97 cents. I meant to get it framed but it was lost in the great flood.
I become more convinced everyday that post-Soviet Eastern Europe is the place to be. The horrors of socialism are still fresh in everyone’s mind.
Moving to Siberia might be an option.
I can imagine it being an interesting, and probably beautiful, place to visit… but living there?
*Turns Minnesodan eyes on Siberian weather reports*
*nods*
Yup, wouldn’t want to live there. Summers would be too hot.
The interwebs tell me that all Russian girls are beautiful and I should sponsor one of them for Citizenship today! Lot’s of Asian sites say the same. Who are you to question the algorithm? Those chicks want me!
Excerpts from George Junne’s The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: 1) In most Muslim societies, slavery was clearly associated with African origin, or more plainly with darkness of skin. 2) Almost all Africans in Ottoman & other Muslim societies were slaves. 3) Africans were stereotyped as vicious, dishonest, ugly, bad smelling, good dancers, monsters, having unbridled sexuality, meant only to be servants. 4) Physician Ibn Butlan wrote in 8th century that the blacker the women were, the uglier they looked, & the sharper their teeth were.
https://twitter.com/gypsy_heart6/status/1161611218781708290
This is just trying to excuse the sins of America
It’s really cool to have an outsider’s perspective on NA politics, Pie. I must say that most of what you featured in that food article did not pass muster. I’d eat the hell out of that Reuben thing, though.
you need to taste the mici
Defunded Police Department Forced to Sell Off Nuclear Submarine
https://twitter.com/REALpunknews/status/1418330405657325575
“Hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites.
This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a now defunct video hosting service.”
https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/1418317613843763208
What self respected porn company would want to be associated with Huffington Post or The Washington Post?
^^^Winner
No topping that. Hang up the spurs, people.
Well from the article it is gay porn…
https://twitter.com/NidaKirmani/status/1418243080235462657
“Few and far between”
ok…
In other words, yet another commie Indian that didn’t learn anything from the Sovietization of the Indian bureaucracy.
In Pakistan maybe
It was officially classified as mostly harmless
https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1418210514786787328
Yesterday I watched this war-time era documentary on the Willow Run plant that made B-24 Liberators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zukteYbGQ
Holy shit is all I gotta say. They did this without computer systems and churned out one bomber every 58 minutes. Each bomber made out of 1.2M parts.
Bonus at 27:01 – “Note the midget” who had to get in between the wings and bolt them together.
and some other points I forgot to add: – the last company I worked for had many, many problems painting and doing very minor assembly on heavy truck parts. I can’t imagine them even trying to do something this complex.
Also these days I can’t imagine any company ramping up production this fast; instead it would be years of environmental studies, HR overload, multi-million complex IT systems (that may or may not help with production), etc
True enough.
Although, OTH, I’m OK they can’t dump all the waste solvents and the like in the river that conveniently runs behind the factory.
C’mon – the solvent adds an extra special something to the water.
If we needed the weapons for war, I’m sure the EPA inspectors would be the first people put up against a wall.
My Silver Lining optimism thinks that as bad as the military seems to be getting, once real shooting begins the real war time leaders would come to the front and get things whipped back into shape.
Piles of dead bodies tends to focus one’s attention on the important things.
I thought we weren’t allowed to promulgate health misinformation
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an impassioned plea for residents of her state to get vaccinated against Covid-19, arguing it was “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for the disease’s continued spread.
“I want folks to get vaccinated. That’s the cure. That prevents everything,” Ivey, a Republican, told reporters in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, the White House has hardened its rhetoric toward social media companies such as Facebook and conservative media including Fox News, urging them to stop the proliferation of misinformation about the vaccine.
I’m sure the fact checkers from the Ministry of Truth will be along any minute now to muzzle her.
Fox has been pimping the vaccines as of late. I’m sure it has nothing to do with their pharma ads.
wut
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/meet-amsterdams-oldest-sex-workers-24601851
I don’t buy the numbers. Let’s say they worked for 50 years; if they fucked 335,000 men between the two of them, that means each of them had 10 men every single day the entire time.
Logistically just seems impossible.
Would not.
I dunno… for the young and hot they do more.
Keep in mind the standard in Amsterdam is 15 minutes from when you go in to when you go out. If you aint done by minute 12 it’s pay more or get out.
With small breaks 3 an hour for 8 hours is 24.
I seem to remember the hookers of Honolulu having an extraordinary throughput during WWII — putting Johns in different rooms so the one they finished with could get dressed and be replaced by a new one while they serviced the guy in the next room.
Maggie McNeill has an article claiming that they could make $30k/year… at $3/client.
*does some math*
Comes (?) out to 33ish clients per day assuming 300 working days.
ew….
ew….
Just window shopping . . . .
The locals care because they live in a nice place. They are special because they understand how to live in a way that makes the place nice.
How much do you want to bet that the Californian immigrants are already lecturing the Montanans about the inappropriateness of sheep fucking? LEARN TO FIT IN (Woolite as a lube is my suggestion)
You’re just trying to pull the wool over their thighs.
I tuned in to NBC to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony and immediately turned off the TV: repugnant, all athletes were wearing masks.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/my-huge-boobs-ruined-life-24594897
“things got really bad for Anastasiya when she claimed she almost got stabbed with a knife by bullies tormenting her chest size”
Yeah…. no that definitely didn’t happen. What really happened: guys harassed her because they wanted to get laid and girls made fun of her because they were jealous. Not exactly abusive and/or traumatizing.
I was told that Big boobs were used as weapons, and it’s true!
Don’t get me wrong – I like boobs. But they’re not a deal breaker for me.
I had a very attractive GF in college who must have been an A-cup. Perky even without a bra. The rest of her was, ahem, magnificent; especially in the hips and butt, which is my weakness.
How many times did the bullies punch her in the face to cause her lips to permanently swell up like that? It must be hard going through life being disfigured like that.
She was so traumatized she swore to live her life dressing in a dignified and modest manner.
I could do without the overinflated lips though. Looks like a wasp stung her lips.
She’s had a lot of work done on her face, at least.
The true face of the Gardaí is
Taxi drivers, van drivers are terrified of transporting a placard for a protest against the Gardaí – in case they get targetted.
Ireland is broken.
The Gardaí are out of control animals.
https://twitter.com/HousemaidFear/status/1418197187713028106
Defund the Gardaí ? Nothing in the news about this just this oine weird account
WTF are you yammering about? It is great news that Giardia is broken.
Wait. Ooops my bad.
Back in another lifetime, EF used to teach ballroom dancing via a local Arthur Murray studio.
Flash forward 25+ years. I bought a still sealed “How to Disco” double album, with booklet. She takes a look at the step-by-step guide and, to my eyes, flawlessly replicates the dance moves.
Amazing how the brain works, especially through repetition.
Former ballroom dancer here.
Haven’t done it in years, but some of it is absolutely etched into my brain.
Refugee from “Disco Dance” class in high school. Triggered!
Pretty sure that’s what happened to me with skateboarding, after 40 years. BTW, STOP disco. And take 4-way.
Same here, dude. I got hardcore into yo-yos in 4th grade – I found one the other day in a box of old junk (amazing that I kept that one through 3 moves).
The last time I played with that thing was probably 2000 at the latest, but I still pulled of some of my favorite tricks flawlessly.
On the other hand… I did a bunch of math classes on Khan Academy to quash my lifelong aversion to numbers. I was really proud of mastering all these advanced math skills, but I got busy with other things and didn’t log in for a month or so. I forgot nearly everything. Fucking bullshit.
Keep in mind the standard in Amsterdam is 15 minutes from when you go in to when you go out. If you aint done by minute 12 it’s pay more or get out.
Union hookers? Eeeeeew.
Union hookers – yes. Standard fare was 50 Euros back in the day
The problem with union hookers is customers don’t pick the gals themselves. Nope, jobs are given out by seniority.
You do pick at the windows.
On the other hand, do you really want to buck the union and go with a scab hooker?
I mean how much clingfilm do you have on you?
“Scab Hooker” is not a great selling point.
I’ve never been that lonely or desperate.
drunk neither?
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-most-american-religion/617263/
Sounds like a take written by someone who understands neither mormons nor america.
Writing about a topic the author knows absolutely nothing about… so a typical journalist?
Interesting how the linked NBC coverage of the Cuban protests features photos from pro-government demonstrations.
Question: Giannis of the Bucks (I aint trying to spell last name) went viral at chick file and ordered a drink half sprite half lemonade. Is that an American thing? Or a Giannis thing? I did not knw you could mix drinks at fast food joints. But if they all cost the same why not I suppose.
Also
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1417713407512432644
Sprite is definitely a black thing in the US. At least it used to be. Half sprite and half lemonade sound like an Arnie Palmer getting car jacked.
Highlight of an otherwise quiet vacation at the Jersey Shore. I think this kid’s got a future.
Future Toxic Masculinity?
You’re not gonna believe this
The current COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — fueled by the highly contagious delta variant — will steadily accelerate through the summer and fall, peaking in mid-October, with daily deaths more than triple what they are now.
That’s according to new projections released Wednesday from the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, a consortium of researchers working in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help the agency track the course of the pandemic.
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The group’s latest projections combine ten different mathematical models from various academic teams to create an “ensemble” projection. It offers four scenarios for its projections — varying based on what percent of the population gets vaccinated and how quickly the delta variant spreads.
In the most likely scenario, Lessler says, the U.S. reaches only 70% vaccination among eligible Americans, and the delta variant is 60% more transmissible.
In that scenario, at the peak in mid-October, there would be around 60,000 cases and around 850 deaths each day, Lessler says.
Each scenario also includes a range of how bad things could get — the very worst end of the range for the most likely scenario shows about 240,0000 people getting infected and 4,000 people dying each day at the October peak, which would be almost as bad as last winter.
Lessler notes there’s a lot of uncertainty in these projections, and how things actually plays out depends on lots of factors, including whether the vaccination campaign picks up steam, and whether other mitigation measures are put back into place.
We just have to scare the bejeezis out of the rubes until they beg us to lock them in their basements.
It’s the only way to be sure our power over them is unbreakable.
I’ll wager that there will be a spike, but the number of people it will kill will be a lot lower than their estimation.
Why? Herd immunity, which we are approaching even at the behest of government intervention. Also the number of low-hanging fruit (age and health issues) has dried up.
Battlespace preparation to claim that Kung Flu always peaks in October, right before election day. Since it’s an off year, they can perfect their cheating techniques running up to 2022.
Don’t know about elsewhere but we have state elections this year. Virginia Dems will likely use convid to their benefit (again…).
Why do journalos not start laughing at anyone who says “we have a model”?
I remember when King Walz’s model said that the best case scenario with a full lockdown was 50K dead Minnesodans. Without a lockdown it would be 70K. (Narrator: Current official death tally is 7K).
Last winter we were clocking 5K+ cases/day, now I’m seeing breathless headlines about our surge to 300+ cases (of deadly Delta variety)/day. No one in real life seems to be concerned about the Delta Rona at all.
Models have become something that the Science™ establishment trots out to scare people away from questioning it. They involve math and stuff; nobody wants to deal with math. It’s easier to just assume that the science man on TV said so and it must be true because he said the word “model”.
Also, if you get to design the model, it shouldn’t be surprising that you can get the result you want.
there would be around 60,000 cases
Meaningless statistic is meaningless.
The only “cases” I want to hear about are cases of beer.
cases of beer – Mango Chili Double IPA extra Hazy?
You’re right. I’m not gonna believe that.
ordered a drink half sprite half lemonade. Is that an American thing? Or a Giannis thing? I did not knw you could mix drinks at fast food joints. But if they all cost the same why not I suppose.
I have been known to go with 1/4 orange soda and 3/4 lemonade.
The problem with union hookers is customers don’t pick the gals themselves. Nope, jobs are given out by seniority.
*shrinkage*
Never mind.
Cleveland Guardians. Now even your baseball teams sounds like a nanny state.
I will be disappointed if their mascot is not a rabid raccoon.
They should have claimed they were dot Indians instead of feather.
I want to know who Tokyo Yakult is and what he swallows.
Good grief. That’s the best they could come up with?
I was hoping for the Aunt Jemima’s.
You just never hear about Uncle Jemima.
That’s not for real, is it?
Unfortunately… it is.
Well, looks like tonight’s going to be the last MLB game I go to.
I’m like 16 months into a complete pro sports abstinence.
I don’t miss them at all. No more of my money for these freaks.
Friend of mine asked if we wanted to join them. We’re in the “party lounge” area, $15 standing room only tickets per person, with a $5 concession credit. So relatively cheap tickets, and get to hang out with some friends.
If they announce the new Guardians name at the game, I’ll try to get a video of the fan reaction.
I know some of you make your own bacon. I just cooked my first batch yesterday. I do need to hook up with my buddy who has an industrial slicer, because cutting it thin enough was difficult. But the flavor and texture were good, other than it being very salty. Is it always really salty, or did I do something wrong?
>>really salty,
that’s what she said.
Drink more pineapple juice.
Eat more asparagus.
Cantaloupe works too.
https://youtu.be/JwBjhBL9G6U
Beer
What method/recipe did you use? Wet cure? Dry cure? Spuds method works well and I found a couple of others that give some excellent flavor profiles. However, the last one I did was too salty also.
I Googled and found two similar recipes. So I used this:
1/3 C salt
3 T pepper
2 t curing salt
1/3 C brown sugar
Rub on pork belly, put in fridge for 7 days, rinse, smoke to 150.
It really was pretty easy and I’d definitely do it again.
I recommend moving your measurements to grams and get a kitchen scale. Then you can calculate your cure based on the weight of the meat you are doing more accurately and might be able to cut down that saltiness.
Why? Herd immunity, which we are approaching even at the behest of government intervention. Also the number of low-hanging fruit (age and health issues) has dried up.
I doubt the revised models even take the winnowing out of the most vulnerable into account.
Battlespace preparation to claim that Kung Flu always peaks in October, right before election day. Since it’s an off year, they can perfect their cheating techniques running up to 2022.
“Stay home. Be safe. Text your vote to #Biden’smyPrez now!”
Even better – every Dem gets to cast a positive and negative vote that would cancel out those icky Republicans. I’m joshing but it doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
Only fair to block the most racist party ever. Says so right there in the Constitution 2.0
Why do journalos not start laughing at anyone who says “we have a model”?
Because they’re credulous simpering buttlickers.
What did I win?
A free Glibertarians membership card? Perfect to flash at the FBI.
Hopefully with fuck finger held high.
My model says, she eats three M&M’s for lunch and four for dinner.
Taibbi has a good article up on the student loan industry. It’s paywalled, but if you’re not already subscribed, he does have some good stuff.
I don’t know who is running these corporate twitter accounts, but I approve.
https://twitter.com/oscarmayer/status/1417969229802917893
Last year, driving home from work, I got to see the Oscar Mayer mobile drive by. No time to take a photo though.
That was one big wiener /STEVE SMITH JOKE
The Tenga Rocket!
Our current timeline is melding with Spaceballs and Dumb and Dumber it seems.
Whycome them no parrot our narrative?
As record heat waves hit western North America and deadly floods swept Germany, the growing risks associated with climate change have grabbed headlines, and prompted widespread discussions in the West.
Scientists have been warning for years that the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and more frequent — and the latest catastrophes are seen as a timely reminder the threat could hit much closer to home than some might think.
But this week, with much of China’s central Henan province devastated by record rains, there was little reference to the broader climate crisis among Chinese officials, scientists or state media.
Stupid Chinamen. Do they think weather just goes in cycles, independent of hairless ape?
We’re The Most Important Thing.
>> and prompted widespread discussions in the West.
by who? (or is that whom?)
It’s a mystery, along with climate change just grabbing headlines on its own. Nothing to do with journolists putting climate change in every story. Local rag couldn’t even run a human interest “I escaped from a forest fire!!!” story without loading it up with climate change.
I don’t know that I would call a troo bleever circle jerk a “widespread discussion”.
It’s a mystery why Chinese officials are domestically blaming every little thing on climate change. Almost as if they plan to use it to extract money from the first world, hamper other countries, and generally do fuck all about “meeting” their reduced “targets” because they know the watermelon useful idiots will make up for any shortfalls because “we’re” all in this together.
What? The country building coal-fired powerplants at a breakneck pace is ignoring the “climate crisis”? Shocked, I am.
We’re The Most Important Thing.
Obligatory
Scientists have been warning for years that the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and more frequent
Except most of the research hasn’t suggested an increase in “extreme weather”. Most of the research I’ve read has suggested that the only change is more people are living in place where weather has extreme consequences.
Your IP has been logged and you will no longer be allowed to post on the internet /FCC Misinformation Task Force
Sorry if posted but WTF?
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/07/23/joe-biden-pops-off-about-sucking-blood-from-kids-in-incredibly-odd-exchange-n415132
He wants to be president of Romania too?
I’m just waiting for a total live breakdown where he gets so bad they have to pull out that old timey wooden hook from the side of the stage to pull him off. I have a bet with my brother that he won’t be able to last his full term due to mental or physical breakdowns. He didn’t want to up the bet the last time I talked to him about it.
He asks the reporter “Are there people in the Republican Party who think we are sucking the blood out of kids, too?”, and she responds “I’m not sure.”?
Yeah but at least she seemed taken back by such a comment.
Zhengzhou’s weather station called it a “once in a thousand years” downpour. Henan’s water resources department went a step further, claiming rain levels recorded at some stations could only be seen “once every 5,000 years.”
But on Thursday, state-run newspaper the Global Times said Ren Guoyu, a chief expert at China’s National Climate Center, “dismissed the connection between heavy rain in Zhengzhou and global climate change.” Instead, he attributed the flooding to “abnormal planetary scale atmospheric circulation,” the report said.
Liu Junyan, climate and energy project leader for Greenpeace East Asia, said without the impact of climate change, “it is very difficult to imagine such extreme rainfall would occur in an inland city like Zhengzhou.”
But she said it is rare for Chinese weather and climate authorities to acknowledge a potential climate change connection in the aftermath of extreme occurrences, because such analysis requires more research and data. “Out of caution, they basically avoid talking about it,” she said. Such associations are also seldom reported by state media, she added.
That stands in stark contrast to how climate scientists and the media have responded in the West. While full analysis is needed to confirm to what degree changes to the earth’s climate have affected specific extreme weather events, many experts agree the trend is clear.
Scientists at the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO), for example, conducted a rapid attribution analysis, which found the western North America heat waves would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas later said they were “clearly linked” to global warming.
Dopey Chinks don’t even know how to build a model, I guess.
“Just tell us what you want us to prove.”
The article on “Californians” making an exodus to other states inadvertently brought up an important point (that it totally failed to acknowledge). As far as I know California is the only state in America where you become a Californian by living for a handful of years. If I live in Arizona or Maine for four years I don’t suddenly have that as my permanent identity. The vast majority of native born Americans that move to California come from the East Coast big cities and Chicago. They usually bring their shitty politics with them and then sometimes move on. I have seen articles that have posited that Texas currently doesn’t have a Senator named Beto because Californians who moved there voted for Cruz in greater numbers. In my experience the native born Californians that leave this paradise on earth turned into an over regulated and overtaxed shithole are more conservative on average. They aren’t moving to Texas and Arizona for the weather or better nature that’s for sure.
Maybe so, but Winston’s Mom could move to Boise and be an Ida-ho tonight…
This is true. California gave Trump more votes than Texas. Those are the people who move. And, I’m almost always the only native born Californian everywhere I go. I still think Cali is more of a reddish purple than straight blue, if you could remove the cheating they’ve been doing for the last twenty years.
Overall, sure Cali is a mixed bag of politics. It is just that all the major cities have consolidated to one party and everyone else is beholden to that.
No. The dem machine is cheating. 25 years ago, we recalled dem Gray Davis and replaced him with Rep. Arnie, who quickly caved in to the dem machine and disappointed everyone from both parties. The machine politics here is an unmovable force.
Wasn’t disagree with you.
Absolutely. I deal with a lot of people as they are getting ready to get their house or condo ready for sale or that have just bought one, and being a conversationalist, I inquire about nice safe topics like where they are going or where they lived before. I’ve met countless people from all over that tell me I am the first native born SFer that they have encountered. And yes, once you get outside of SF or El Lay, aside from some uber wealthy enclaves, it is a hell of alot more conservative or even libertarian. Anytime I’m in the north state I see tons of State of Jefferson signs and stickers.
You fail to appreciate how spineless and self-destructive the Republican party of California actually is.
You fail to appreciate how spineless and self-destructive the Republican party
of Californiaactually is.I’m out. Have a dandy one if you can manage it!
Enjoy the weekend.
*gives Benny Hill salute*
Folks on the next block fly a Montana state flag with “Don’t Californicate My Montana” added.
My favorite is still “Try to remember you are refugees, not missionaries.”
That’s good.
As they should. Vegas has always been an extension of Cali because of the massive vehicle traffic it brings but they used to go home. Now they have sold their ridiculously priced houses in Cali and are buying up homes here and the politics show.
We have the 5th largest school district but of course they don’t want to break it up. Our kids go to good schools that statistically get dragged through the mud. At least they have gotten the pot industry somewhat right and haven’t hit their own ballsack with their cock like California has in that regard.
I see a few things that will be changing. We have blinking yellow/yield left turns. Cali drivers run red lights because that is what they are used to in SoCal. 3-4 seconds after the light goes red about 10 cars still move through the intersection. Can’t have a yield left turn if that is the case. I suspect now that the legislature has abdicated nearly all power to the Guv, we will see an income tax wanting to be imposed.
We need to renegotiate water rights of the Colorado and power production rights of Hoover Dam. Probably wont, regardless of the explosive growth. Cali has been building large tracts of solar farms right along the border in a NIMBY fashion.
All reasons that I will be leaving here soon hopefully. Soon = 2-3 years unfortunately.
To all NHS staff who think they are undervalued:
– 90% of the population has managed without you for nearly 2 years.
– we still can’t see a GP.
– we still can’t get specialist treatment for cancers, heart issues & many other diseases
– nobody else is getting a pay rise
https://mobile.twitter.com/gavan1734/status/1418263086058905602
Do they still hang for blasphemy in england?
Goddamnit i blame wordpress
We have those blinking yellow arrow left turn lights now. Yielding on a solid green disc was too difficult to comprehend. No surprise. People can’t figure out right of way in other situations. Signs and signals are just suggestions anyway.
Why would they want to. I moved from Big Blue City to a nice country place in a red state. And I’d been told a couple of times when I first moved to “leave my politics up there”. And the thing is, why in God’s creation wouldn’t I? I mean, I left a somewhere to go to this place that I really love, great people, decent leisure, easy living. The people here obviously got something right that the people where I moved from didn’t catch on to. Why would I want to replicate what I didn’t like in the place that I do like? I know it happens. But, I can’t figure out the mentality for the life of me. It would be like some guy from Lehman Brothers walking into a successful financial services firm in 2009 and proceeding to tell everyone that they should do things “the Lehman way”. If the Lehman way was so good, why’d they go belly up while the place you moved on to is still around?
/Ponders decision to leave successful financial services firm to join Lehman Bros. in August 2008…
Not my finest moment.
Wow. Not just 2008, but August too.
My brother was exceedingly lucky that he was able to find another financial services position when Bear Stearns collapsed. Those were some fun times.
But, I can’t figure out the mentality for the life of me.
That’s because you are rational, and don’t view your politics as part of your identity.
The concern, and it has proven out in at least some jurisdictions, is that the Cali transplants are Dems, and will keeping voting Dem, and that can flip a city, county, district, etc. to Dem. And Dem these days means “leftist”. There seem to be a lot of Dem voters who aren’t ideological leftists, but can’t stop voting for Dems who, it turn out, are.
The Democratic party has been in charge of places like Cleveland and Detroit forever, and those places under their stewardship have deteriorated into unlivable shitholes. And they continue to win election after election there easily.
People’s political orientation has nothing to do with policies and everything to do with identity: “we’re us, you’re them.” People flee the places where the people they voted for implemented disastrous policies (usually for no other reason than to help them win further elections), but their identities don’t change. They don’t want to be one of _those_ people, so they continue to vote Democratic.
IOW, democracy is a horseshit system, and if it truly is the best of a bad bunch of government systems, then I guess I’m an anarchist. Because the last 18 months have ably demonstrated how piss lousy it is.
Having visited Montana a number of times over the years I have seen that sentiment. I have sympathy for it if they are referring to not bringing far left politics with them. I have nothing but disdain for it for it when it goes beyond that. When it goes beyond politics I view those people as a brand of communists, and a scratch or two below the surface usually leads to a not very liberty minded person.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/07/23/christine-blasey-fords-lawyers-release-a-statement-as-democrats-decide-to-freak-on-brett-kavanaugh-again-n415211
I wish one news organization or intrepid reporter would boldly state to these fucktard politicians “This won’t change anything, this just campaign fundraising isn’t it Senator?”
What dismayed me about the whole Kavanaugh incident was how fast I saw acquaintances threw out the concept of due process and evidence so they could stick it to a guy Trump nominated.
I lost a friend because I stated that while we’ll never know what happened (I was trying to be diplomatic because I believed that Blasey Ford was lying), we can’t go after someone based on a lack of evidence or witnesses for an event hat happened decades ago. I was accused of being sympathetic towards rapists.
#BelieveAllWomenUnlessTheyAccuseADemocrat
It was a sight to behold to see the excuses for Biden’s accusations.
One of the most dangerous things feminism does is push for rape/harassment to be special crimes where a man can be automatically punished merely on a woman’s say-so.
I was accused of being sympathetic towards rapists.
If a woman made the accusation, it must be true.
Ponders decision to leave successful financial services firm to join Lehman Bros. in August 2008…
But you learned a lot about what NOT to do.
Leaving that firm was absolutely the right decision. A different destination might have been preferable.