Still balling
Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th homerun as his career winds down. The Orioles ran their impressive streak to 18, as they chase the record for futility. I went to the Astros-Mariners game yesterday only to discover that the “runner on second” extra innings rule is even more ridiculous when you see it in person. Ronaldo got benched for most of the game as his future at Juventus looks more in-doubt by the day. This wasn’t very Nice. I mean, technically it was Nice, but it wasn’t very nice. I had no idea there were so many “Mexican national team soccer fan” cosplayers in France. And in England, Liverpool and Chelsea were probably expected to have 6 points after two matches. But Brighton wasn’t. Good on them. West Ham or Leicester could join them after today. And Arsenal looked like absolute dogshit again. I only hope it continues. And that’s sports.
Legend
Big birthdays today are French King Louis XVI. The headless monarch shares it with acting dancer (or is it dancing actor?) Gene Kelly, jazzman Bob Crosby, slugger George Kell, actress Vera Miles, actress Barbara Eden, legendary drummer Keith Moon, infielder and first ever DH Ron Blomberg, football player “Rudy” Ruettiger, actress Shelley Long, ageless baseball player Julio Franco, actor River Phoenix, imbecilic politician Gretchen Whitmer, basketball player Kobe Bryant, and Subway pitchman and pederast Jared Fogle.
Right, now on to…the links!
Usually political infighting is fun to watch. But somehow I think this will end with an even worse bill as they seek to pay off the more fiscally conservative members with a bunch of free shit for their districts.
“It’s for your own safety!”
These two have completely lost the plot. Unless they’re under the impression that they can literally keep everybody else out of their country going forward while not letting their own people travel abroad. Although based on what I’ve seen, that may very well be their plan.
Speaking of one of the above, in what possible way is this even remotely necessary? I think they’re just showing the people what they can do at their leisure. You know, in order to prove a point that they are the only ones with guns and therefore can use them any time they feel like it, and if the people don’t stop protesting they’ll end up like the dogs. Or maybe they’re just sadists.
I remember when people from up that way mocked Texas for their handling of an incredibly rare winter storm. Lots of mocking and “haha, your power grid is a joke”. I’m not going to say the same about them, and I hope they all get power back soon and that the damage is minimal.
A rabid race-baiter and anti-Semite has been hospitalized with covid. So has his wife. He was very public about getting his vaccine in February. That is all.
Well, they should feel betrayed. You know why? Because they were betrayed by that fucking dope who thought it would be a good idea to evacuate the military before he evacuated the civilians in a nation that apparently every single person in government knew would rapidly fall under the control of a terrorist regime that lops peoples heads off for fun.
Cuomo being “Italian”.
This asshole is finally done. I’m sure he’ll do something sketchy on his last day, be it grabbing some chick’s tits, sending an old person to their death, or maybe pardoning some political cronies. It’s coming. So don’t act surprised.
Wait, the armed civilians are the bad guys? You mean the ones protecting property from rioters and looters? Oh wait, you’re still calling the people burning everything down “protesters”. Well, go fuck yourself.
Yeah, this isn’t a political hit job or anything. I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that this would happen in the one-party state of California on the eve of the recall.
Well this is pretty freaking awesome. And yes, I want to take my kids.
Here’s a solid song. Even if it is a bit short. OK, I’ll give you another short song to make up for it. Enjoy them both.
Now go have a great day and a wonderful start to the week. I’m going to the doctor to have a finger put up my ass, among other things.
Edit: they’re not putting other things up my ass. They’re doing other things besides putting a finger up my ass.
I expected more of those, like a torrent.
Mariners game yesterday only to discover that the “runner on second” extra innings rule is even more ridiculous when you see it in person.
Absolute travesty. Ruining the game.
Next up, each team plays down one player.
Or how about this: Whoever was in the game at the end of the ninth must remain in the game until it is concluded. That includes the pitcher.
How?
It alters the game completely and unnaturally. Why not do it for every inning if it’s a good idea?
By making it artificially easier to score in extra innings by rewarding bases without earning them. Hell, why not just pull the pitcher and decide the game by playing a round of home run derby?
Just go with “the bases are always loaded in extra innings”.
It’s an abomination, along with the 7 inning double header.
You joke but i think they discussed something like that to try out in minors.
I am hearing certain complaints – but “ruining the game”? Are people no longer going? Has the Hall of Fame said they won’t admit players who play under this rule? TV ratings plunging because of it? Kids stop playing Little League, etc because a guy starts on second in the 10th?
Look, I am all for exaggeration for effect, but this is similar to the old-time hockey fans belching and squeaking about the loss of the sacred “tie game”, people saying the DH has “ruined baseball”, pass interference and roughing the quarterback rules in football ruined the game (“why don’t they just put on a dress now or play touch!”). If it is ruined, stop watching, listening or such and find a new interest.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s ruining the game, but it is a terrible rule that needs to revert back to the old rule next year. It rewards teams with a base runner they didn’t earn, and that makes no sense at all.
Allowing full–color avatars has ruined commenting!
To be fair, it was already a rubble field, so it’s hard to tell the difference.
The DH did ruin the game. The AL is totally trash, while the NL is trash on certain days.
I have great childhood memories of staying up to watch 18 inning games.
Plus the great story of the 4th of July in ATL that combined rain delays with stupid long extra innings which resulted in the post-game firewords going off about sunrise on the 5th.
To be fair, the AL has been trash since 1901. Been even more trash.
You can watch a fantastic game, either a pitching duel or a back and forth slugfest where the lead changes a few times, and then all this hard fought drama ends with a fake runner idea that someone pulled out of their ass. Terrible.
Say “Terruh-bluh” in a Barkley voice man… That gives it gravitas.
“If it is ruined, stop watching, listening or such and find a new interest.”
I have.
I used to be a huge baseball fan, but I haven’t watched a game since 2019. Maybe it was the Cubs finally winning the Series that started me losing interest, but currently I just don’t care. So I don’t know the answer to this: if a run scores in extra innings after a player starts off on second, does the pitcher who started the inning get charged a run against his ERA? Because that really doesn’t seem fair.
No it doesnt effect his ERA is like a ghost run. Like magic.
Turrible
I wondered that myself. But I saw yesterday that the Blue Jays’ Kirby Snead pitched the 11th against the Tigers, getting the first two outs without the runner advancing before giving up back-so-back doubles.
The box score had him with 2 runs against, 1 earned run.
I stopped watching after the 1994 strike season, when they cancelled the World Series. Haven’t missed it.
The day will come when Major League Baseball gets rid of pitchers and plays Tee Ball.
“I’m going to the doctor to have a finger put up my ass, among other things.”
Other things? Sounds intriguing.
::grimaces::
I am with you….
Prostate cancer needs a different way to be found..
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/g22531538/best-prostate-massagers/
This doesn’t appeal to me… I would rather they yank the crank, if you know what I mean…
Go on…
One tropical Storm will not be enough to wash downstate clean. The drain is too clogged, it’s time to kill it with fire.
Or maybe they’re just sadists.
I can’t think of any other explanations.
Someone: *coughs*
Australia: Kill the puppies.
It’s a show of force. They want to be dead certain the populace knows who has all the guns and how quickly the state will resort to using them to “keep order”.
I think it might get messy in Australia very soon.
I think it might get messy in Australia very soon.
Nah, the Ozzys gave up their guns willingly. Even most Americans are just rolling over and taking it, with the exception of a few red states.
They gave up some of their pistols and semi-auto rifles, his the rest. Shotguns and hunting rifles are still legal.
Semi-auto rifles are hunting rifles.
As are fully-auto rifes, cannon, and missiles.
Be werry werry quiet, we’re hunting tyrants.
IIRC, they must be kept at a sort of armory at a shooting or hunting club and access is strictly limited. A few ranchers and farmers in rural areas are allowed to keep a gun for pest control, but they have to report all of their ammo use and what’s allowed to be kept on hand is very small.
Whoa whoa whoa, report all ammo use!? I’m starting to feel like we need to liberate Australia.
Fuck them, they voted for it and/or allowed it.
Gun laws of Australia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_of_Australia
Better than most places actually but not nearly as good as us.
Supposedly compliance rates were low too. It’s almost unbelievable how this has gone to the Australian cops’ heads.
You mean sniper rifles. Nobody needs a gun so powerful it can kill a 500lb animal at 1000 yards!
I’ve posted before links to stories showing the number of guns in private hands in Australia is up.
On the other hand, the number of gun owners in the population is down.
I can’t help but think our fearless leaders would do similar here if they thought they could get away with it. The people with real moral courage in leadership seem vanishingly rare.
They absolutely would, they aren’t inherently more level headed or freedom loving than your average Aussie politician.
Going to amusement parks again is pretty high up on the list why I even want to have children at all. I mean there are other reasons but this is my selfish one.
It gets better once you get through the “escape from tot land” phase.
Nah. Much more fun to go without kids. Then you don’t have to worry about them not being tall enough to ride the good rides.
Good morning! The henri remnants have us pretty unusually socked in for August. Minor road flooding delayed my commute by 10 minutes and I had to wear a rain jacket. The things we deal with. Hope your Monday is swell!
This would probably be the least freedom-restricting plan possible that could actually succeed. Not that I endorse it, but if you’re serious about stopping a contagious disease I don’t see how else you do it.
The funny part is that any such rules will of course not apply to the elites so when they inevitably bring lambda, mu, or nu back with them they will have an interesting time trying to figure out who else to blame it on.
The kulaks and wreckers.
Don’t worry they won’t find it hard to deflect blame, it is never their fault.
That lady in Monday AM Linx the pick looks familiar…
Vacation starts today, catch up with you all in a couple of weeks. Don’t make a mess while I’m gone.
Heading out to Nevada to see what kind of shit show takes the place of Burning Man this year. It will be interesting if a bunch of people spontaneously gather, enjoy and leave without all of the govt and private bureaucracy.
Hah, awesome! Have fun. Don’t get pulled over by that asshole sherrif in Nixon. Whoa, 20k people!? It might be awesome. I can imagine that if some of the bigger camps with their soundsystem art cars get out there it will be just as fun and full as a renegade. I’m not jealous at all, nope not me.
Back when we lived in San Diego we drove up 395/6/95 and you pass through Schurz – much like Nixon. We had a campmate that was an hour or so ahead of us and called us to give a heads up on LE activity. Well, the whole “sheriff in Schurz” was coming across about like Blazing Saddle’s “the sheriff is a …” as we kept trying to figure out what he was insuring. We still laugh hysterically about that.
Huh. I thought you were Canuckistani.
My gun safe laughs at you; Grandpa was, but that’s as close as I get.
Have fun!
Larry Elder Investigation: Par for the fucking course and transparently crooked as hell, so crooked that hopefully it boomerangs on them. That’s banana republic shit.
Team blue’s tactic is to throw as much fake shit as possible at the wall hoping something sticks. That and a hefty dose of cheating, and man have there been a bunch of stories already of ballot harvesting crimes.
See also- Herman Cain. To a lesser degree, H. Ross Perot.
Berenson is claiming that the hospitalization rate of vaccinated versus unvaccinated is total bullshit and that the vaccinated are ending up in the hospital at far higher rates than admitted.. I’m yet to see any data on it or a rationale for why it is off, but I have heard a rumor that they are not counting anyone as “vaccinated” if it has been more than twelve weeks since the shot. I’m skeptical, but appreciative of the fact that bureaucrats do pull this kind of data mangling when their asses are on the line.
The one thing you can be sure of is that none of the numbers can be trusted. After the US government helped lie about the Florida numbers just recently so they could attack DeSantis, only to then get caught and exposed, it should have become obvious that they are neither being honest nor care about the damage to their credibility that they have done.
Linky for that?
Here ya go…
[Edit Fairy slept in this morning, but here you go.]
Damn…
Paging the edit fairy!
Berenson also got into a twitter fight with Robby Soave and it was the most petty little online slapfest I had seen in a while. I enjoyed it. I also have heard that claim of the hospitals using a different definition for vaccinated. But it’s a pretty big claim that would be hard to keep secret. We shall see.
“petty”
We’re they insulting each other’s hairstyles?
Yes.
There is this tweet from the PM of Israel though, which is an outright admission that the vaccines have failed.
https://imgur.com/a/Icrh0Ji
What is the thinking that a third shot will work where the first two haven’t? This seems utterly contrary to my understanding of this virus/vax mechanism.
Functionally, based on the Israeli data, the vaccine protection is lasting six to seven months. They’re hoping that the booster will by some more time, but there’s no evidence on it and there is zero data on safety.
I see an increased incidence of Guillain Barre in our future.
I also foresee a near complete collapse of the public health bureaucracy. They’re going for broke, and if it fails, which it looks like it will, they will have zero credibility with anyone.
They’ll be lucky if they don’t end up getting lynched.
My father had that. He spent 4+ months on a ventilator paralyzed from the neck down. Took him more than a year to get back to physically being able to do things again.
Haunted him for the rest of his life. He collapsed in a Walmart (due to heart arhythmia) and when he came to in the hospital he though the G-B was back. Literally started crying with relief when we told him it was just a bad ticker.
He thinks it was from the Swine Flu vaccine that they forced on govt workers in the ’70s. It is why he never got the Rona vaccine.
Duh, third time’s a charm! Everyone knows that.
MOR VAX = BETTAR VAX!
I’m curious if they’re changing the mixture between the vaccinations (like the flu shot), or if they’re just pilling on more of the same in hopes that this time, it works.
From a Japanese study:
Antibodies will drop off from anyone. The question is whether the body remembers how to make more when exposed to the infectious agent.
Apparently not, because the Israelis are getting sick.
This was the risk of immunizing against a specific part of the virus (spike protein) versus the entire virus.
Bingo. Long-term immunity depends on T-cell memory, rather than antibodies.
Maybe I missed it (it wouldn’t be the first time), but it seems that the current kerfuffle is all surrounding the mRNA “salvations” and not the “one and done” which is a more or less conventional vaccine, An annual ‘remix’ to address any more extreme variants or even folding it into the annual “flu shot” makes more sense for the J&J. But…who stands to gain financially under the current circumstances?
And the fast tracked full approval of the mRNA? Hmmm.
J&J uses adenovirus (sp?) as a vector to make the body produce the spike protein which triggers an immune response. The adenovirus vector vaccine has been around and been in use in humans for a while.
The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) use mRNA as a vector to make the body produce the spike protein which triggers an immune response.
The same end result (in theory), just a different way of doing it.
When does he get banned from twitter, or is this ‘misinformation’ (truth) allowed now?
Also, how many people actually have gotten their third shot there? 1/79?
His next suspension is a ban.
Relevant.
Those were just divisive assholes, whose goal is to drive the people apart along whatever lines imaginable. Lots of good people up here too… okay, a few anyway.
“New Zealand’s government says it’s extending a strict nationwide lockdown until at least Friday as it tries to extinguish a growing coronavirus outbreak”
Taming nature is simple. In the old days, we ended drought by sacrificing a few virgins to the volcano gods. We can end an epidemic by destroying an entire society. Easy peasy.
This shit is like burning down your house to get rid of a mouse. There is absolutely no concept of a risk v. benefit analysis.
Shit. Mom fell and broke her wrist last night.
Sorry to hear that brah.
Damn, man. Hope it’s not a bad fracture.
You live near her or need to travel fir this?
Praying either way. But it helps to be specific.
Dad’s bringing her home form the mountains today so she’s got help.
Sorry to hear but on the upside it is I think one of the less bad things to break, not that it is much consolation
Yes, fortunately it wasn’t a hip.
Sorry 🙁
That sucks. Sorry.
That’s terrible! I’m really sorry to hear that.
Sorry.
Sorry to hear that.
Ooh, that’s a rough one.
Sorry to hear that.
Damn, son.
That is a powerful set of links to kick off the week. Solid.
And yeah, you’re right about the California recall. Newsom is terrified of Larry Elder. He’s even stooped to making TV ads in which they show Elder’s face and call him a Republican but they dare not speak his name for fear of name recognition on the ballot.
My husband and I dropped our YES recall and ELDER ballots in a US postal box yesterday as our parting gift for California. Who knows if they’ll even be counted.
Not just Newsom, but the whole Democratic Party; Elder is the living refutation of their rhetoric.
Elder has jokingly referred to himself as libertarian for years (“I have here in my baby black libertarian hands an article stating…” etc).
He’s doing the GOP thing for the same reason Paul and Massie do it: to win.
He’s more conservative with a libertarian streak, isn’t he?
Somewhat snarky response: Libertarian with a conservative streak?
Serious response: He’s definitely got conservative leanings. I’m not sure which is stronger in him: libertarianism or conservatism.
As the Doc says below, Elder is very willing to go to libertarian events.
He was one of the headliners at FreedomFest last month, at which he’d been booked long before the gubernatorial bid. He’s also been a guest at Reason Weekend before. So even if he isn’t fully libertarian, he’s certainly not afraid to be associated with libertarian events, unlike many Republicans. Which is nice.
With all these libertarians voting for him and people like me kicking money into his tip jar, there’s no possible way he could lose.
Right? Right?
Why are you all looking at me funny?
This is written so poorly. Lets try again:
“This is not the first time Elder has been unfairly targeted. The office of the California secretary of state initially excluded him from the recall election ballot claiming he did not properly disclose five years of tax returns to the agency. Elder successfully sued the state over that requirement, because it did not apply to recall elections. A judge last month sided with Elder, and the tax return requirement was waived for all candidates in the race.”
Requiring private citizens to disclose their tax returns as a condition of running for office sure sounds like it’s unconstitutional.
Why not require them to have a physical performed and the results disclosed? A list of sexual partners? How about their college and high school transcripts? Ooh, and their 23&me results so we also know their racial makeup?
Yeah, it should be sort of an informal thing where a refusal to disclose is weighed by the individual voter and influences his/her vote, or doesn’t, accordingly.
Can you please stop giving them ideas?
Ha, next you’ll be saying religious tests for office are verboten.
Remember when after “fortifying” the election the fucking machine told us the adults were back in charge and the rest of the world could finally breathe a breath of fresh air because the adults were back in charge, not to mention that Europe finally was happy to get rid of the orange guy that put Americans ahead of their people, we now get this shit. I still wonder these people felt replacing orange man’s broken administration with a clown car’s occupancy was going to go well in any way.
I will tell you that Carter feels redeemed, and even Boosh, Clinton, & Obama must be secretly happy Biden is improving their shitty reputations.
What a fucking embarrassment. I hope all the actual Biden voters are proud.
I congratulate them on a regular basis.
When the entire machine is built for one purpose, beating the orange man and defaming his supporters, it leaves little room for good governance. The Biden voters are getting exactly what they voted for good and hard. I fucking hate it.
I’d feel better if the criticism wasn’t grounded in the Liz Cheney position.
Wish I lived in Texas, watch out kids, Daddy is taking this for a spin.
I have one to add to the Birthday list: Charles “The Hammer” Martel.
He beat back the Islamic hordes (Umayyad Caliphate) from the area we call France back in the day.
He’s also the grandfather of one Charlemagne, whose name might ring a bell.
God bless the Franks and that little bit of remaining spirit they continue to show against fanatical religious oppression.
WWCMD?
I used to post that semi-irregularly on islamic terrorism related threads. I am not sure anyone ever got it or responded.
I like it.
It will always mean something to me, and I’m somebody.
In 408 politicians had the last decent Roman General, Flavius Stilicho, was executed. In 410 Rome was sacked.
In 2021, the American military focused on diversity and Afghanistan was overrun. History gets dumber each time.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/312171
I feel like pouring a vodka and sitting next to you.
It’s a sad, sad feeling.
I choose to look at Charles Martel birthday for some hope!!
There hasn’t been a decent politician since Cincinnatus, with a slight exception given to Augustus. I don’t think we have to worry about the Taliban sacking DC though.
Sacking? No. BLM/Antifa already have that covered.
Causing destruction and death? *Looks up September 11, 2001*
I can’t wait to see the sequel to the Patriot Act.
I never thought America’s collapse would happen so rapidly during my lifetime.
The Taliban might actually be preferable to the anarchocommunists who are some of the most unhinged people on the face of the planet. If they ever were to actually gain control the bloodletting would be hard to put into words.
I am not sure what I want less of. Religious fundamentals, or irreligious fundamentals.
What was it that CS Lewis said:
Sept 11 – 16 of 19 perps are Saudis. Yeah, we sure squared things with those bastards!
The Taliban were also open to turning over specific Al Qaeda individuals but then we gave them an offer they couldn’t accept. This whole damn thing was completely unnecessary but all you have to do is look at a map to see why we did it.
Yep, we hadn’t been in a land-war in Asia in a whole generation.
We should be so lucky.
When I first read that episode of history, I could not understand why everyone in Italy just shrugged and hailed their new rulers. Now I get it.
This is why Larry Elder wins California (unless there is so much fortification that voting doesn’t matter anymore)….
He aint winning nothin
^This. The Democrats in control of CA will fortify the shit out of the election.
*recalls Trump rallies versus Biden rallies*
Yup.
Yup, 1400 people isn’t going to turn the electoral tide. Still wishing him the best, just skeptical of hope in California.
I’m skeptical of hope in general. It’d be cool if I wasn’t but here we are.
Elder has an agile mind and seems to be a decent human being, hopefully he manages to pull it off.
A modest proposal.
https://twitter.com/content_grinder/status/1429674004936159234
They were warned.
We’re still not eating babies!
Is it just me, or does anyone else not see the point of veal? It’s almost chicken-level flavorless.
It’s a use for the male calves on dairy farms.
I’ve never been a fan either.
You must not have had a good cook…
I can make a delicious osso buco, but I imagine it’d be just as good (or better) with beef.
Let me make you some “Saltimbocca a la Romana” and you can then comment…
Be careful Not Adahn Alex expects things if he cooks for you
It’s called “tit” for tat for a reason there Pie….
Veal raised free range, is very different from the deal in grocery store.
I don’t bother with it.
I wrote a very good argument to my boss on Aug 10 for putting me and my right-hand-man on the LIST for the next layoff.
The subject line was “A modest proposal”.
Fingers crossed, it could happen in the next 2 weeks.
Looking for a good severance package?
Yup
Well, good luck.
It rocks when you pull it off. I did this twice back when, and it was nice.
“Our findings deepen the understanding of why retraction does not stop citation and demonstrate that the vast majority of post-retraction citations in biomedicine do not document the retraction.”
https://twitter.com/RetractionWatch/status/1429503695704797184
Is this an article against pulling out at the last minute?
Cuomo is such an asshole that’s he’s not resigning until 11:59 tonight, so that his First Female Successor! has to take the oaf of office at midnight.
He needs the time to fill out all those pardons.
I still think he’s going to pull a rabbit out of his hat and not leave.
“my constituency has spoken to me…”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/22/university-of-virginia-boots-238-students-for-declining-covid-19-injection/
I think Jefferson’s ghost would be happy if the removed all of his statues.
Wait, if the vaccinations work then what….ah, fuck it…
It’s a total inability to adjust based on incoming data. Everybody has thrown out rational thought and resorted to religious fanaticism.
Totems for the win!
UVA is overrated anyway. Having interacted with its law students, they are not that bright.
Although approximately 96.6 percent of UVA students have received full doses of a COVID-19 injection, the university is requiring any students who were approved for religious or medical exemptions from the novel medical treatments to take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear masks indoors and outdoors on campus.
Something something Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. We wouldn’t want young people to catch a cold with a 99.99% recovery rate.
Is that a chef’s knife in your hand or are you just happy to see me?
The goal is for Democrats to be able to craft a sweeping legislative package to expand the social safety net under a budget process known as reconciliation, which would not be subject to the Senate filibuster’s 60-vote threshold.
Because “Democracy”…
If anything can be infrastructure, anything can be budgetary.
Doggie executions – fanatics always believe that their cruelty is necessary.
These two have completely lost the plot.
Not if the plot is subjugation and control.
How many of you are worried that what we are seeing in Afghanistan is by design? I am getting horribly suspicious that the fucking machine was pissed that they got forced into leaving, and they are fucking it up – on purpose – to make people break down and demand we exact punishment. So far the Taliban has not taken the bait, but the machine is upping its game in the hope it forces the Taliban to do something bad.
I know Occam’s says to stick to the simplest solution, and ineptitude fits these people, but I can’t for the life of me believe the fucking morons that fortified the election are really this fucking inept this fast with this Afghanistan operation, but this seems to be so bad that it is by design. That they keep doing the exact opposite of what you would do to discourage the enemy from resorting to extreme actions also bears mentioning. It feels like they want the Taliban to kill a bunch of Americans, brutally and on TeeVee, for some reason…
https://trendingpolitics.com/british-ministers-are-now-openly-stating-their-belief-that-biden-has-gone-completely-mad-knab/
Our wokest allies are really pissed and think Biden is gone mentally.
Well, I will say that if this was deliberate (which I presume to be far less likely) then resignations are no longer the order of the day; executions are the only acceptable outcome for those responsible.
A year ago I would have said that’s pretty far-fetched, but now, it seems entirely plausible. Especially the way “conspiracy theories” seem to keep turning out to be the truth.
^this.
Can’t find the meme but basically the next time someone says they have a theory I’m going to listen. lol.
My thought is that there are a lot of cooks with different motivations and differently sized ladles stirring this soup.
In my mind you have three major players:
1) The wokestanis who
. a) hate the American military for cultural reasons
. b) hate the war on terra’ because they see it as rasist
. c) want to divert military spending to their social programs
2) The non-interventionists who
. a) hate the war because they see it as pissing away American lives and treasure pointlessly
3) The military industrial congressional complex (MICC) who
. a) believe that intervention prevents chaos (support a pax americana)
. b) are supported by the military spending
The wokestanis have come to dominate the intelligence and military arms of the government, which previously were dominated by the MICC.
And while the non-interventionists are well represented in the lower levels of the intelligence and military services, they are almost non-existent in the policy-making senior levels.
During the Trump presidency, the MICC and the Wokestani’s had an uneasy alliance against the non-interventionists. It was a very short-term alliance of convenience.
But with Trump gone, the alliance fractured:
1) The Wokestanis are attempting to enact their goal of ending problematic interventions abroad while diverting military spending and energy towards their domestic ends.
2) The MICC are fed up with the Wokestani policy ideas and Wokestanis’ imbecility.
I suspect that MICC supporters withing intelligence set up a trap for the Wokestanis. No matter what happens, there will be a disaster that can be laid at the feet of the Wokestanis and the non-interventionists.
I think the MICC people stepped aside and allowed the wokestanis to put their people in charge. I believe the MICC misinformed those wokestani fall-guys in a manner calculated to take advantage of wokestani ideological vulnerabilities. I believe up to a few weeks ago, the wokestanis thought they were winning the internal power struggle when in fact they had been set up.
The MICC people are generally as smart or smarter than the wokestanis. The MICC are generally better grounded in reality than the wokestanis. I think the Wokestanis have blundered into a trap and it will be some time, and only by shedding compromised members of their factions before they can start to behave in ways that don’t look laughably stupid.
You can file this opinion next to my prediction that Al Gore would win the 2008 presidential election.
I think that’s a plausible account of the factional infighting. The factions don’t just run on institutional lines, but on cross-institutional ideological lines.
I’ve seen people voice a theory that the mess at the Kabul Airport was intentional on the part of the generals, in order to force Biden into sending in more troops and prevent the pullout from happening. Who knows.
I don’t get that logic. Send in more troops temporarily to actually extract all US (and allies? And any collaborators not already killed by the Taliban?) citizens? Sure, that would fit.
But once that’s done and with Bagram and all the US equipment gone — there’s zero reason to not wash our hands of it all and get well out of there. It is abundantly clear from this that there’s no Afghan “allies” in any position of authority there. We’re not going to occupy the country. This would make as much sense as taking over an airfield in Iran and holding it indefinitely — and work just about as well… and everyone knows it.
Frankly, anyone who suggests we try such a thing should be immediately sacked for incompetence.
I’d like to see this (and I don’t think I’m alone) result in a massive sacking of DoD, flag ranks and the intel community because I think they all deserve it, but I know that’s overly optimistic.
The point is that the generals absolutely do not want to leave and are doing what they can to cause chaos, with the intention that it forces Biden to commit to keeping soldiers there.
Once I got over the initial Afghan gut punch this actually makes me sympathize with Biden. We absolutely needed to commit to leaving. This level of incompetence seems willful. Of course, it can easily get worse. The crisis is not over.
I am pretty sure Biden doesn’t want to leave either. Well, I am more sure that he wants his butt wiped and nap time, and doesn’t care about this shit as much..
I get the overwhelming sense that Biden does not give a fuck about Afghanistan at all.
I get the overwhelming sense that Biden thinks AfPak is a new vaccine.
I don’t think so, at least not intentionally. The way things have played out leaves the generals looking like rank idiots, increases non-interventionists political strength and alienates allies. They might not want to leave, but if this was intentional it massively backfired and left them in a weaker position both morally and strategically.
I said the other day that I think it’s deliberate. The military-industrial complex isn’t a “conspiracy theory”.
Like answers on a test, I don’t change them until I know I am wrong. I have held that there were forces somewhere in either the generals and/or IC that want this exactly how it is. Though incompetence I guess could account for: leaving untold amounts of weaponry and multiple air-frames, a base left in the middle of the night, State Department not wanting to listen to their people on the ground, Pentagon/WH ignoring the advances of the Taliban and their pace, removing troops then rushing them back in, and on and on.
We are all Kremlinologists now.
The MIC wants to advance its military contracts. This equates to more salary and all the trappings of corporate power that have no moral hazard and dont depend on typical business customers making or breaking your company. Wars, conflict, overseas engagements, military base expansions, etc are what they want. Shooting off tons of old ordinance is another thing they bank on.
Things the MIC executives, investors, and military brass hate are base closures, noninterventionism, nonupgrade of military systems and no real enemies they can scare congress into budget busters.
Honestly, its why the cold war turned immediately into the war on terror. That didnt require contracts for subs and ships and nuke bombers so china is being helped to ramp up their military capabilities to require a new cold war.
These people are evil fucks and deserve to be hanged by light posts. They have no problem lobbying congress and presidents to send Americans to lose limbs in foreign lands.
They make plenty of money with normal military contracts to defend america and replace aging weapon systems that reach end of life. That is not good enough, so that create turmoil and make sure noninterventionists like Trump lose. The bureaucracy also knows which sides its bread is buttered.
Several impounded dogs due to be rescued by a shelter have instead been shot dead by a rural council in NSW under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions, alarming animal activists and prompting a government probe.
I didn’t know PETA was international.
Tropical Storm Henri made landfall at 12:15 p.m. Sunday near Westerly, Rhode Island, the National Hurricane Center said, as thousands of customers already without power braced for the full effect of the storm.
I think yo mean “Super-storm Henri”.
He was very public about getting his vaccine in February.
But the vax totally works.
US diplomatic cable reveals Kabul embassy’s Afghan staff feel BETRAYED by America and are being attacked by Taliban
“What difference, at this point, does it make…?”, “C’mon, man. That was like a week ago.”
Oh wait, you’re still calling the people burning everything down “protesters”.
Meanwhile America’s Tally-ban, i.e. MAGA Trumpsters, are the greatest threat.
Speaking of, was there any more info on the totally not a false-flag FBI op with that “bomb threat” at the capitol last week?
And of course the people who perpetrated the least violence – they’re INSURRECTIONISTS!!!
Not interested, it was an obvious attempt to deflect from their failures in A-stan.
How was this paper published by IEEE? Did it undergo peer review? There are many instances of non-sensical phrasing that go against the standard terminology of computer engineering. Was this paper generated by AI?
last author, Moayad Aloqaily is co-founder of collision ring with Yaser Jararweh. Paper accepted by member of collusion ring (Sohail Jabbar) who orchestrated an anonymous 😉 peer-preview ;). This is everything describe @IEEEorg
now
https://twitter.com/ScIntegrity/status/1429645600514007044
I used to read IEEE, Scientific American, and a slew of other science pubs back in the late 80s/early 90s. Then Scientific American published a slew of marxist global warming shit in the late 90s, and I quit that subscription. IEEE and Popular Mechanics lasted until the mid 2000s. Most of the blog science content became pure propaganda after 2010, and these days you are right to stop ready any fucking shit invoking climate change or genderism, cause it is likely to have nothing to do with science. The fact that the scientific principle was created to prevent human bias – especially political bias – from ruining science seems to have been lost on these fucking marxist hacks.
One word; Lysenkoism
Democrats always tryna hold a black man down.
California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, a spokesman with the Fair Political Practices Commission confirmed on Sunday.
“Fair”…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
This new park in Katy Mills is letting children operate heavy machinery
Real life Tonka Toys. I’m jelly.
Fuck NY.
How many children did those kill?
None.
Sounds like he was set up.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
He had to be. How else would Port Authority cops know to pull him over and conduct a search? Which raises questions regarding the activity of Port Authority cops in Pennsylvania.
Oaks Gun Show.
I think I’ve been to that.
I know relatives of mine used to go to it.
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
“Arms” Not “guns”, not “rifles”; but “arms”, meaning any and all arms.
And bear means to carry.
I hate how antigun types act like those words don’t mean a thing.
You’re just jelly of our low crime rates thanks to these fine officers keeping us safe.
NYC Man Had 10,000+ Bullets, Silencers, Switchblades, Brass Knuckles, DA Says
And?
“The scourge of illegal guns in our City has caused bloodshed and heartache. This defendant is accused of taking advantage of the easy access to guns outside of our state in order to bring them into our communities. This is an all-time, too-often issue in our City. We will now seek to bring this defendant to justice for his alleged crimes.”
I am not seeing the crime here.
According to the charges, on August 15, 2021 shortly after 10 a.m., the defendant was allegedly observed in Pennsylvania attending the Oaks Gun Show. … Shortly after entering New York City, the defendant was pulled over by members of the Port Authority Police Department.
And why was he under surveillance?
If that’s the correct picture, it looks like this terrorist bastard had ILLEGAL RUSSIAN AMMO!
Buh?
Which are not even firearms.
Real baseball birthdays:
HoFer George Davis, one of the early great Shortstops and totally unmentioned by sloopy for some reason. Davis was an interesting guy, IIRC.
Lonny Frey, Julio Franco, dubious HoFer George Kell – who sloopy did mention for some reason, Mike Boddicker, Sherm Lollar, Nels Potter, Casey Blake, and John Romano.
I deep list of decent players.
Also Rudy was offside.
Glad I don’t live there anymore.
According to a Richmond Police Department release, at 1:26 a.m. on Aug. 21 officers found three rifles, two handguns, and ammunition in a vehicle at 3rd and Decatur Street. Authorities were originally called to disperse a large, disorderly crowd.
Eight minutes later, at 1:34 a.m., police received multiple reports of vehicles doing burn-outs and doughnuts at 18th and E. Main Streets. Officers wrote a ticket for illegal parking but didn’t witness any reckless or illegal driving.
Then at 1:40 a.m., officers responded to calls of a large crowd and shots fired at 15th and Cary Streets. RPD says 250 vehicles were cleared from the scene.
Richmond Police say they will continue to work to clear large crowds from high-traffic areas in Shockoe Bottom.
Still live in the Richmond metro, but so far out that you’d never know it. I go into the city now when work demands it and no other time. The city doesn’t want people like me there and I’m happy to oblige them.
Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated
“And you know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You’ve got to do what you have to do,” Trump said. “But I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines.”
Some boos rang out from the crowd, who were largely maskless.
“No, that’s OK. That’s all right. You got your freedoms,” Trump said, echoing rhetoric from opponents of mask and vaccination mandates. “But I happened to take the vaccine. If it doesn’t work, you’ll be the first to know. OK? I’ll call up Alabama, I’ll say, hey, you know what? But [the vaccine] is working. But you do have your freedoms you have to keep. You have to maintain that.”
Now that Trump has reiterated he is pro-vaccine, what will team blue do?
Since he said that people have the freedom to make their own choice regarding the vaccine, he is still the devil incarnate and an anti-vaxxer.
Is it enough to be anti-mandate? When it comes to Trump, you need to go completely in the other direction.
Time to mandate no vaccines for anything.
I listened to it, and any booing sounded like it might have been two people.
I watched live. He misses the mark by pushing the vax. Credit for supporting individual choice though.
Why does he miss the mark? That vax exists because of him and he believed it was better because of that. Note that he is encouraging people to choose the vaccine: not telling them that they will be forced to, or else…
If people were being honest, the vaccines would be recommended for those 65 and older since they are really the only age group at risk of this virus killing them.
Also if someone is paralyzed with fear, they should take the Vaccine. 99% of those under 65 have <1% chance of dying from kungflu, so a vaccine is an unnecessary risk.
The vaccine mandates are getting more severe because american commies know that they might be able to convince businesses to deny service to the 50% of unvaccinated americans which will cause businesses to fail from the lost incomes. Destroying the us economy is the end goal here. Whatever it takes.
I have seen Trump supporters post on Reopen NH related groups that Trump is not pro-vaccine and never pushed the vaccine. When corrected, they double down.
It’s the same illness as the vaxxers who were against ‘Trumo’s vaccine’ but were never against the vaccine.
It is important to remember that just because one side has become wholly evil and bent on creating gulags, the other does not thereby become brilliant or saintly. Trump was the best President of the past 30 years, Biden may well be the worst, but Trump was at best a C+.
Tallest midget
I prefer the “best looking turd in the punchbowl” analogy.
He was mean. We get it.
Trump accomplishments are literally too numerous to list here in 5 mins of typing.
I cant even think of a real accomplishment that helps americans for the last 35 presidents before trump. el presidente biden is only in charge of his banana republic.
“According to a new poll, only 25 percent of Americans said they support President Joe Biden’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan, while a vast percent disapproved.
Released by NBC News Sunday, the poll was conducted from August 14 to 17, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9917043/New-poll-shows-25-percent-Americans-support-Bidens-handling-Afghanistan.html
Maybe 25% approve of leaving Afghanistan, and that’s what they meant?
Woot!
*celebratory dance*
USPSA divides competitors into six skill classes, ranging from “Grand Master” to “Utter and Absolute Trash.”
Yesterday I managed to claw up from the bottom category to next-to-the-bottom category. Clearing that threshold by an entire 0.04%. God willing, someday I’ll advance from “Meh” to “Not terrible.”
I am hoping that is really the names, but I am betting it isnt.
Grand Master
Master
Expert
Not Terrible
Meh
Utter and Absolute Trash
That would be awesome. I think I have moved up to meh on chess.com too!
To qualify for Grand Master you have to shoot while wearing a pointy white hood, and from behind two turntables.
Akshually, you just need to be in the top 5% of shooters.
The bottom four classes are actually A,B,C,D — but everyone knows they’re just euphemisms.
US chess Federation does the same, but they go down to J.
My chess.com ELO would put me in E, but that is supposedly a bit inflated, so probably an F.
J would be U&AT.
In that case, I’d probably rank an L.
I actually once blundered into a fools mate as the fool.
Knowing what fool’s mate is puts you a category or two above a J.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAIOQv-RNhA
“CNN’s sense of humor failure: Jim Acosta slams prospective California Governor Larry Elder who joked that Trump helped obese women to lose weight because they ‘got off the couch to march against him'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9917563/Jim-Acosta-clashes-GOP-rep-Larry-Elders-disgusting-comment-obese-liberal-women.html
LOL
The left killed humor, and in a move that has left me baffled, are also destroying sex & romance. Remember the days where we were told SoCon prudes would make flirting & sex illegal? Yeah, these days it is some dude with tits screaming about how people like me need to be punished for not wanting to date them…
No making fun of anyone ever for any reason except for certain religious or political affiliations.
The average ago of post-vaccine covid deaths is 82.5. Jesse is a little younger than that but fits the profile.
My figuring says the pandemic was over last September (if not early), covid is endemic now.
And the vaccine works a lot like the vaccine for endemic flu. It stops it in some cases, and weakens it in others, and is probably worth getting above a certain age. I started getting the flu vaccine after a bad bout in 2014. I have had it once since and it was mild, no big deal.
Lots of people don’t get the flu vacc too, and that is okay.
The “pandemic” was over a month after they had locked us down and had confirmation that the Kung Flu, while a bio weapon made by the CCP, was not as dangerous and only a serious risk to people with comorbidities (of which having been/being a smoker, something that was otherwise considered a danger to life expectancy, was a blocker). They kept it and exacerbated it because they needed to steal the 2020 election in the US, while totalitarians in the globalist movement kept the show going because it helped them fuck over their citizens. What we have right now is a corrupt and inept leadership class dragging this out until people bend the knee and let them dictate going forward. Not working very well yet, which is why it won’t go away any time soon..
My figuring says the pandemic was over last September (if not early), covid is endemic now.
I think so too. Unfortunately now there’s a push for Covid booster mandates. My company has included all future boosters in their vaccine mandate.
I’m waiting for the flu vax to be added. And for my wife and children to be included. The justification will go any dependents on the company health plan will be included in the vax mandate.
I will quit my job and live off grid before I let them force experimental drugs into my 6 month old.
As will I. Forcing the Covid vax on my children is a very bright red line for me. I have a couple months to decide if I will bend the knee and get the vax for myself. If push comes to shove, I probably will get the J&J and be done.
If a booster comes out for J&J and the booster mandate is actually enforced, that is blurry red line for me. I think a lot of people initially got the vax once to get on with their lives but now it’s become a moving target. Where does this path end?
Where does this path end?
Subjugation to medical tyranny?
Better to fight now then after you have 3 doses of the vaccine in your system and we find out it weakens the part of your brain to fight tyranny.
Fighting tyranny when the tyrannical start really is easier. Its an endless war by the tyrannical against average people.
All future boosters!? Many people, like me, considered the pro/cons of getting the least damaging of these shots and did. Many people, like me, feel utterly betrayed by the reversal of public policy up to and leading to mandated boosters. This puts me firmly in the against medical tyranny camp. Mandating boosters seems like an epic blunder as it will push many go along to get along types into the resistance.
As seen in Europe, with people burning their vaccine cards in solidarity with the unvaccinated.
Average US life expectancy is 79. Not to minimize the deaths, but statistically anyone past that age is on borrowed time. If it’s not breakthrough COVID, it’s heart disease, cancer or an accident.
Nah, because that includes the really young deaths in the average. If you make it to 65, your life expectancy is 17 or 20 more years (male/female). But you aren’t far off.
That’s what really annoys me about people using the ‘life expectancy’ statistics to talk about Ye Olden Days. It makes people talk as if adults would drop dead at thirty five when they just had a child mortality rate that would shock third world nations today.
Wine and eggs diet
https://twitter.com/itoldmythe/status/1429372553630466049
That can’t be good for flatulence.
It is good for flatulence, just bad for the room. Unless you have a dog nearby or a baby. Then you blame them.
Dave Smith was on TimCast on Friday and it was good.
They mentioned Steve Bannon will be back on tomorrow night.
Bannon’s sort of a Darth Vader but it should be a good episode, he’s a smart guy.
I really enjoyed Steve Bannon the last time he was on Tim’s show. Given the current events this may be even better.
Good morning, Sloop!
That heavy equipment park sounds like a perfect place to take the girls! Learning to drive a bulldozer and excavator would be really fun.
I saw the story about the doggies yesterday and I’m still pissed. The ‘vid is really bringing out the monsters in people. Why do I feel like it’s gonna get worse before it gets better?
Two solid songs, though, for a Monday. Enjoy being probed!
A heaping helping of titties on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/K92GV
We must ensure the right to force children to wear a petri dish on their faces and deprive them of oxygen.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that he is “prepared to launch investigations” into red states that have banned schools from requiring students to wear face coverings.
“We are prepared to launch investigations with our Office for Civil Rights to ensure that all students have access to this fundamental right of education, and it’s sad that we’re talking about this now,” Cardona told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“We’re gonna use our Office for Civil Rights to investigate any claims that come forward to make sure that students’ rights are kept,” he continued.
What civil right is being denied again? Are the kids that show up to school wearing them being told to remove them? No? Then STFU. How dare people have a freedom to choose how they address their risks.
“Argle bargle herpity derpity doo.”
So not mandating = banning? Ok.
Does anyone have any links to actual studies regarding Covid and pregnant women? As with everything else Covid related, it seems like trying to find actual evidence is a minefield littered with advice from public health experts. As best as I can tell, it seems pregnant women are (possibly?) at a higher risk of more severe symptoms, but that there’s no evidence of any sort of transmission or effect on the baby. The second part of this aligns with my observation that if there were even a hint of babies being affected, the media would be all over that sort of storyline.
Any pregnant woman who gets this vaccine is crazy. Since the vaccine has only been out for 4-6 months in america, there is just no good data on the vaccine effects on newborns, fetus, or babies.
If you inject unknown effect items into a baby/fetus I call into question your fitness as a parent.
Especially when less than a few hundred under 18 kids died while infected with sars covid19.
Just picked my daughter up from High School volleyball tryouts. Had to wear masks and was told if you pull them down and we see your face youll be running sprints. With the mask on. Whats wrong with these people?
A bit of childhood trauma builds character
They were going to force the parents to run sprints?
Power attracts sadists. Film at 11.
I sweat like a pig. If I tried to play any sports with a mask it would end up being a self-waterboarding.
There is no way I could compete while wearing a mask.
Didn’t David Carradine die doing the whole asphyxia thing?
Only because he did it in excess of what he should have.
One of the earliest honest assessments on masks is that they are particularly ineffective once wet.
Good thing we continue to ignore this.
Plus breathing your own CO2 reduces oxygen levels into your lungs. Guess what you need a lot of while exercising/doing sports?
Has anyone else noticed these dipshit mask wearers dosing off? These people dont need anymore brain damage from low oxygen levels than they already have being antiscience.
Uffda. Climate Change is going to kill construction workers (who are of course all minorities).
Color me dubious, but if Mother Gaia is really getting that hot, any days we lose to heat in Minnesoda would be more than made up for by all the days we’d gain from not having it be -15.
Huh, it’s not the heat that will cause the loss of work, it’s government mandates for “safety”. Where’s my shocked face? You mean they don’t just take the entire summer off in California or Arizona?
They’re doing the same bullshit here using a record setting heat wave into must do something. Now everyone is getting their panties into a twist when the temperature hits triple digits as if those were abnormal and not the usual yearly summer highs.
That name screams “ignore us”.
But… but… THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!
How does your argument help those peddling more marxism, though?
Guatemalan roofers here in SoFla read the article, laugh briefly, then get back to work.
Apparently, Cuomo abandoned his dog when he left the governor’s mansion, in case you were wondering just how big of an asshole he is.
I don’t buy it it does not sound like something he would do
FWIW, his flacks are claiming it’s “temporary”.
That he left the house or the dog?
Was it his dog, or the People’s Dog?
Democratic outreach to Latino voters on the California recall election is not working. I’ve been speaking to young Latinxs and almost none of them have any idea what is going on. This is really, really bad.
https://twitter.com/jeanguerre/status/1429585527259369478
you mean those people who dislike the word Latinx?
No, they talked to the three clueless people who actually identify as ‘tinx.
And they’re white liberals.
This Aussie news report… beyond Orwellian.
https://gab.com/sethdillon/posts/106805592242647010
Totalitarian.
I bet they’ve got kids turning in their parents by now.
Did I hear her correctly in that news report they are calling the vaccine a ‘cure’? They speak so weird I guess it could have been something else.
Curing disobedience?
Conflating an obviously sick asshole going out coughing and sneezing all over the place with a group of teens hanging out. Fuck off you bitch.
Like our news some details missing and just enough to scare people. How do they know the man was positive? Still positive? Or is it just assumed everyone is positive?
That reporting was similar to our razor blades in candy reporting.
Well that’s true too. He might just have allergies.
If Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys ends up fatface down in a ditch, I will drink in celebration.
You only loose the freedoms that you surrender. This could have been nipped in the bud at the outset if there was mass civil-disobedience.
slugger George Kell
I need to get out more. I read that as “slutter”.
The House is expected to vote as soon as Tuesday on a budget resolution for the President’s spending package after the Senate approved a $3.5 trillion measure earlier this month. But Democratic divisions are jeopardizing its passage in the House.
I think those divisions will disappear and the bill will pass.
While New Zealand was maintaining its strategy of trying to wipe out the virus completely through lockdowns, neighboring Australia appeared to have conceded that lockdowns would not be able to eliminate the delta variant entirely and could only slow its spread.
The public health fascists can go fuck themselves. I’m surprised some Aussie officials are down on lockdowns.
A new adventure park coming to Katy Mills will make you feel like a kid on the playground again. Only this time, the playground is 3.5 acres and the jungle gym is a Cat 303.5E2 CR excavator.
That’s neat.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
United States government official
To those in Henri’s path: Don’t forget that you may need to seek shelter while we’re still battling COVID-19 and the Delta variant. So wear a mask and try to observe social distancing.
And to everyone across the country, don’t get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated now.
Catching a mild cold is everyone’s chief concern.
I don’t take advice from Dementia patients’ aides
The volume and constancy of this messaging is creeping me out big time. I think it has even surpassed the “buy war bonds” stuff from WW2.
“When you unmask alone, you ride with Covid”?
Well that would certainly explain the people who are wearing a mask while driving around alone with all the windows up…
Covid is My Copilot?
I’m not a fan of bumper stickers, but this might be a good one.
During the 2 days of fighting at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, over 16 000 soldiers lay wounded in cold, muddy fields waiting for rescue.
During the night, some of the men noticed that their open wounds began to glow in the dark
A greenish blue glow
The men had no explanation for this strange glow.
Doctors discovered that soldiers who had reported seeing their wounds glow had a much higher chance of survival than soldiers who did not.
https://twitter.com/Flaminhaystack/status/1428367354421944322
Imagine being this person.
Friends have their kids in Scouts. We go to the meet-and-greet and I shit you not, the pack mother didn’t wear a mask the whole time. I got so anxious that I had to leave.
Sack up, man.
I have seen people like this. They believe this is “The Walking Dead” level event and chances of being hospitalized is 100% if you catch it. Nothing will change this persons mind at all.
People with irrational beliefs will not care much about logic or facts…
Well, they had a cousin’s brother’s dad’s co-worker’s grandchild who got it and died. So what do you know?
So what does that make us?
Yea, argument by anecdote is strong with the Branch Covidians.
And it’s funny how it never works the other way – I can bring up a dozen people who openly flaunt the COVID restrictions and never got it or had any symptoms, but that doesn’t count.
Those dozen people are all asymptomatic sooper spreaders!
Hell, point out how the people making the rules continue to flaunt them, and watch how fast they can change the subject.
That is different! They have official duties they must attend to!
I have had that told to me…all I could do is just blink at the person.
Futhermore, they ignore the billions of people around the world that have been exposed to sars covid and didnt die.
Hypochondria by proxy.
How was this guy ever going to survive camping?
He was the guy you outran when being chased by bears.
You don’t even need to outrun him anymore. Just pull down your mask and he will be frozen in fear and you can stroll away.
This guy has never sacked up in his life.
https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jason-wilson.jpg?strip=all
Looks like he grocery sacked up quite a few times. With ringdings, ho-hos and other nutritious essentials.
“Democratic outreach to Latino voters on the California recall election is not working. I’ve been speaking to young Latinxs and almost none of them have any idea what is going on. This is really, really bad.”
https://twitter.com/jeanguerre/status/1429585527259369478
Inconceivable!
It is probably because you refer to them as Latinxs, when they have said knock that shit off.
that’s what I said
Yeah just saw that. Good call Pie. Cause that is probably why they tune them out.
That term aggravates the shit out of me. I’d be pleased if some MS13 branded it into her forehead.
The US empire already had illegal, murderous blockades of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, and Iran, and now a de facto blockade of Lebanon.
Embargoes don’t recognize who is and isn’t a civilian. Washington is waging brutal economic warfare on billions of people
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1429572399406718977
Point out how well not embargoing China, a nation that has a leadership that is at war with the world, has worked out for the world. People will regret the idiocy of allowing a totalitarian nation to benefit from the wealth created by others in orders to build a military capability that would allow it to hold the world hostage. The USSR was beaten because we didn’t let it take advantage of the things it told its people were signs of evil. Then we went and made China semi-prosperous for the dictators in Beijing, under the delusional concept that this would change them, while our leadership has grown enamored of the CCP’s totalitarians abilities and wants to model their power after that.
Point out how well not embargoing China, a nation that has a leadership that is at war with the world, has worked out for the world. – for now
we didn’t let it take advantage of the things it told its people were signs of evil
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4610.html
The FDA just approved the Pfizer vaccine.
Still not getting it.
Que up my union bending over. Wonder how the Presbyterians view of religious exemption is.
Vaccine development is a long, complex process, often lasting 10-15 years and involving a combination of public and private involvement. The current system for developing, testing, and regulating vaccines developed during the 20th century as the groups involved standardized their procedures and regulations.
Not anymore!
Foregone conclusion.
But at least you have confirmation that the FDA is a bought and paid for political institution bereft of principles now.
https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/08/23/fda-not-allowing-public-hearing-over-covid-vaccine-licensing.aspx
Yep – no inconvenient questions allowed.
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID–19, and for other purposes.
Odds on it making it out of committee?
They intend to keep pricking you from now until you die.
I’m more curious on the odds that if it does, whether or not certain people start being found in the Hudson or other waterways under the jurisdiction of the EPA.
Don’t pollute the Hudson any more, The Blue Herons have just started coming back.
Ok, on the topic of abandoning principles because in a particular case those principles become inconvenient…
FDA approval procedures are bureaucratic interference in the market at their worst! Every libertarian, or even liberty leaning, article on the subject has being saying for years that they should be streamlined, privatized, or outright eliminated. Some of you posting here have previously talked about how FDA approval’s built in delays have killed thousands of people.
I do get that the usual argument against the delays is that the people being ‘protected’ are already terminally ill, BUT let’s not go down the other slope by claiming that failure to complete every bit of red tape magically makes something more risky.
My concern is more along the lines of the rubber stamp being used as ammunition by people mandating the experimental treatment.
They will use dishonest arguments no matter what we do. Getting us to do so as well just lowers us to their level. The argument against a vaccine mandate should not be based in utilitarian calculus. For one thing, basing it on risk/benefit analysis automatically gives the win to those in a position to falsify the data, because if the last couple decades have shown anything, they have shown that the data will be falsified.
^^^^^^^ x1000
Same with masks and lockdowns and everything else. Arguing on a utilitarian basis, while sometimes satisfying, concedes the premise.
I’ve had the same thought, Jarflax. 12 years is probably too long, 3 months is probably too short, for formal approval (and let’s not kid ourselves, an EUA is formal approval).
Of course, the first question is, what should formal approval (or the lack of it) mean?
Agree with all – until we get to the part where the treatment in question is mandated. Suppressing all evidence if injuries and deaths becomes really concerning in that case.
I do get that the usual argument against the delays is that the people being ‘protected’ are already terminally ill, BUT let’s not go down the other slope by claiming that failure to complete every bit of red tape magically makes something more risky.
Tha’ts a bit of a strawman. No one is advocating for red tape. It takes a solid decade of trials to determine the long term risks of a new drug. That’s separate from any FDA bullshit. In the case of terminal disease, you accept the risks (who cares with a death sentence hanging over your head). It does not make sense to artificially accelerate the covid vaccine trials to the point of absurdity.
If this had not turned into a political test case I do not believe for a moment that you would be saying we should not allow a vaccine to be used because it did not have 10 years of trials. Remember that I am not arguing for mandates. I oppose mandates as strongly as anyone here and am NOT vaccinated nor planning to get vaccinated. Approval does not = mandate. And approval also has only a limited nexus with the trials you reference. It is ALWAYS bureaucratic rubber stamping (or banning when withheld). The FDA does not conduct the trials, they just read them and substitute their judgment for that of us lowly peons.
In other words hypocrisy here is not that people are saying that FDA approval coming quickly in this case is a politically driven rubber stamp. Of course it is, that is what the FDA does. It is the implication that FDA approval in all the other cases was anything but a politically driven rubber stamp and this case was a special aberration that devalued that approval.
Dead threading it but it’s this or go do some work.
Once again, it’s the asymmetry. When politically convenient, we ignore our own rules. But if it’s just normal run of the mill or something we object to, you have to run the gauntlet.
Similar argument for the principle of freedom of association vis-a-vis companies requiring the vaccine. Freedom of association only goes one direction, the direction to increase state power and influence.
That’s the object. Is it violating our principles? Maybe. But if we always lose standing on principle by winning in cases where it restricts individual liberty and losing in cases where it would expand it, maybe the game is so rigged, you can’t play it standing on principle. Keep those principles for your personal life and interactions with individuals, not the state.
Me neither.
People who add DNA to their geneology are just asking for trouble…
A friend of mine just proved that her maternal grandfather isn’t.
Even better, her mom’s actual father tried to marry her grandmother after the grandmom’s divorce, but grandma rejected him because he was paying too much attention to the girl that she didn’t tell him was his daughter.
Would he have if he knew?
Who knows?
I mean it’s entirely possible that he was a kiddie diddler, but I’d think it’s possible that because of the timing, he at least thought she might have been his and he was looking for signs.
General Michael Hayden responds to a Tweet advocating sending unvaxed Trump supporters to Afghanistan with “Good idea”
https://twitter.com/GenMhayden/status/1429436196149661696
Just a (bad) joke but still, what an asshole.
As if we needed evidence that Hayden is a piece of shit.
I like to remind people so they don’t forget.
That is…logical.
With the other tweets I am not sure just joke. He considers anyone that is ‘MAGA’ as kin to the Taliban. He is an asshole, but I believe he would not lose sleep if the order was given to kill anyone wearing a red hat and driving down the road with a US flag in tow.
Have to correct you. He would lose sleep because he’d stay up late figuring out how to do it and set his alarm clock for extra early to get right back at it.
Appropriate response.
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About that withdrawal deadline extension…
The Taliban has delivered a chilling warning to foreign nationals and Afghans scrambling to leave the country, saying there will be ‘consequences’ if the US does not leave Afghanistan by August 31 and extends a deadline for the withdrawal of troops.
Thousands of Afghans who worked with U.S. military forces remain camped around Kabul airport trying to find safety as the clock ticks down. American nationals are also waiting for their own flights home. …
Taliban spokesman Dr Suhail Shaheen said the group will not accept an extension to the deadline and warned of retaliation if Western forces extend their ‘occupation’ since the group dramatically swept to power.
They don’t want to lose legitimacy by bending over and taking it like the Afghan National Govt did when we extended the pullout date. If we’re not out they can and will throw us out along with all that entails.
They could reprise the English retreat from Kabul of 1842.
Biden and Elphinstone do have senility in common.
He’s a medical doctor?
I’m going to the doctor to have a finger put up my ass, among other things.
S/he could at least buy you a drink first.
There was a drink – it was to clear the colon for the ‘other things’.
“The Wuhan lab leak theory is more about politics than science
Whatever this week’s Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats
…The main evidence to support a lab leak rests on the failure of scientists to pinpoint the intermediate animal that picked up the virus from bats and passed it to humans. In addition, the Wuhan institute is home to a laboratory that is headed by the virologist Shi Zhengli, who tracked down the bat origins of the last coronavirus Sars epidemic.
Her team specialises in collecting coronaviruses. Thus, one of the world’s coronavirus research centres was situated in the city where Covid-19 first materialised – a coincidence that some conspiracy advocates find too much to accept…
“As things currently stand, the evidence strongly suggests that Covid-19 arose after a natural spillover event, but nobody is yet in a position to rule out an alternative,” he said.
This point is backed by Professor James Wood, of Cambridge University. “I think there is very strong evidence for this being caused by natural spillovers but that argument simply does not suit some political groups. They promote the idea that Covid-19 was caused by a lab leak because such a claim deflects attention from increasing evidence that indicates biodiversity loss, deforestation and wildlife trade – which increase the dangers of natural spillovers – are the real dangers that we face from pandemics.”
In other words, fiddling with viruses in laboratories is not the dangerous activity. The real threat comes from the wildlife trade, bulldozing rainforests and clearing wildernesses to provide land for farms and to gain access to mines. As vegetation and wildlife are destroyed, countless species of viruses and the bacteria they host are set loose to seek new hosts, such as humans and domestic livestock. This has happened with HIV, Sars and very probably Covid-19.
And that, for many scientists, is the real lesson of Covid-19.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/22/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science
SCIENCE!!
Horseshit
Everyone has their hobby horse.
Are you saying a hobby horse is the intermediate animal?
Last I saw, this theory had some major gaps in supporting evidence. Such as:
The intermediate host animal (pangolins?) have never bben found to have this virus.
There was no outbreak where the bats actually live, which is a long way from Wuhan.
The Wuhan fish market as a potential ground zero for the first outbreak hasn’t panned out.
The earliest cases seem to involve people associated with the virology lab.
For anyone interested in Sunday’s KF&G shoot, the stages have been released.
Nothing mind-fuckery, but he’s definitely designed it to be magazine-inefficient. Good thing I always carry six.
A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data
Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/dan-ariely-honesty-study-retraction
There was a bit on the Newhard show that went something like:
Dan: Why don’t you trust me?
Bob: Well, you yourself admitted that you are a pathological liar.
Dan: And you believed that?
Discount natural immunity.
Force society to use a drug and insist it is the only way
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Profit!
Pfizer is enjoying a good run this morning. I am sure none of our esteemed congress critters and their spouses or faceless bureaucrats made plays with their stocks as they pushed for approval.
I am honestly starting to have doubts about my decision to get vaxed
The best thing about the vax is that it allowed my wife to climb in off the ledge.
Our life is pretty much back to normal again. For some reason, she isn’t concerned about all this new information about how badly the vax is doing. There is no way I’m going to bring it up because I’m glad my wife is back. I don’t need a return of the crazy person who was convinced that the Rona was going to get us all.
I was never afraid of it myself, just for my mom and more so for my aunt. I wanted to be able to travel really but I did only one trip and that sucked so why bother.
I’m glad I got all that “participating in life” stuff out of my system by my forties. Now that I am not allowed to, I don’t particularly care.
I took the jab for two reasons: My kid’s doctor after a long discussion with him recommended my kid get it (and he had once had a bad reaction to another vaccine when he had a cold) and I figured I can do it with him to keep an eye on him. I am not scared of needles (I donate blood every 8 weeks) and I have had so many vaccines based on having to live or be deployed to real shitholes, that I now believe I can put mustard on asbestos and eat the shit without risk. The second was because it allowed my girlfriend to get off the ledge as well, as she had been convinced anyone not taking the vaccine that came next to her would make her a zombie.
Congrats on being a guinea pig. We could easily see from the diamond princess cruise that it has a ~10% infection rate and <1% mortality rate and mainly only kills those over 65 years old. That was January-February 2020.
If only the unvaxxed survive, I will avenge you!
I am beginning to think you evil capitalist are exploiting us poor Romanians. Maybe the intersectionalists were right…
In a supermarket near me they sell Wild Alaska Smoked Salmon. The price is similar with standard Norwegian Farmed Salmon. This is very suspicious as the wild stuff is usually more expensive. Are you selling us fake wild salmon? Certainly seems so.
If I ever get to Alaska I expect you people to fish a fresh salmon for me so I can check.
Be prepared. When you ask for a fresh salmon, sometimes it comes with a bonus.
https://i.imgur.com/lKew1bI.jpg
I am not ashamed that…that is kinda hot.
I’m going to take the high road and not make any fish smell jokes.
Spare me from hearing the one about God getting mad eve went swimming and then made the fish smell please, brah…
I thought fish farming was banned in Alaska.
Well, when you plant the fish seeds, they don’t tend to grow. Try to plant the fish and they fight you. Try to graft the fish and they just get all smelly and rot.
Thank you, Mike Bloomberg.
Y’all need to start sending us inexpensive steel cased ammo.
Op-Ed from a NH State Rep on masking kids and vaccine mandates
Over the past several weeks, grassroots activists have called on the Legislature to meet in special session to thwart mandates for masking our children at school and mandates for vaccinations just to make a living.
While many representatives support the effort, there is also bipartisan resistance. This is to be expected, because today’s issues cannot be labeled “Democrat” or “Republican.” A divide has formed between those who accept permanent biosecurity as an acceptable way of life and those who believe human freedom is also the best way to preserve life.
The Legislature has been called to exercise its Constitutional role to defend the very essence of human liberty, but some of its members have chosen to sabotage the effort to stop those who wish to sacrifice liberty for a perceived sense of safety or to exploit the fear and confusion of the people to preserve their own interests.
Now that the work day is over what is everyone drinking?
I am having this. I don’t much like it. I have cooled on IPAs and prefer pilsners or pale ales.
https://untappd.com/b/hop-hooligans-firestrata/3618040
Also descriptions like this annoy me
“A spanking new hop variety has been blazing trails through the neighbourhood, set on a crazy rampage that you’d better stay clear off.
Strata’s got a short temper, so if you catch even a whiff of its unique tropical fruit and sticky-icky combo, you’re already done for.
Steel yourself – it looks like trouble found you”
Ok, rude. This Monday is particularly Monday for me. I have at least 4.5 more hours of hating myself before the work day is over.
*looks at clock*..ugh
Posted too soon
/raises non-alcoholic caffeinated beverage in solidarity with waffles
I have always preferred pilsners and pale ales.
Just picked up another sixer of Sixpoint wheat. I didn’t like their pale ale but I like the wheat. Too early to drink it, though. But I am off work so…. No. Too early.
And yes, that description is trying too hard. Too bad they all do it.
This is a test. I am coming to you live from an undisclosed location, via laptop powered by an inverter plugged into my car and my cellphone wifi hotspot.
Look, everybody, I’m James Bond.
This brightened my day. I have the funniest mental picture right now. Bless you brooksy.
Get your house sold?
I am fucking sick and tired of my family going on FB to talk about the idiot anti-vaxxers following witch doctors who are just about conapiracy theories.
I am also sick of the “your rights end where my immune system begins.”
Ypur ax = you are protected
My vax != you are protected
What’s difficult about this concept?
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Problem is, you CANNOT TALK TO THESE PEOPLE. They do not care. They care about their cult.
Fuck me. I hate posting on my phone.
It at least got me to chuckle on this fine Monday
Yay!!!!
I’m sorry you’re having a bad day.
XY’s English teacher sent a list of school supplies to buy so my day started off gloriously. I LOVE buying school supplies.
School Supply list these days:
1. Little Red Book
2. Black and Red Antifa armband, Hugo Boss brand recommended
3. One set of clothing traditionally associated with the gender NOT assigned to
yourxir own xild at birth so that they can be guided in exploring their options,4. (6) glass bottles, one liter or larger, easily breakable
5. (6) rags
6. (3) liters gasoline (yes we know it is killing the planet, but it will be used to fight the Patriarchical Capitalist Oppressors and is therefore acceptable)
“your rights end where my immune system begins.”
“OK, I can work with that. Your rights end where my immune system begins, right? And this vaccine affects my immune system, so you have no right to demand that I get it. That’s how this works, right? My immune system, my body, my choice?”
The anti-mandate protestors are still working the streets in Tucson. The “My Body My Choice” motto is a fave. I think that’s what we used to call “culture jamming”.
Do you expect people to think things through?
I love how this virus has absolutely destroyed almost everything.
Do you expect people to think things through?
Of course not. I just enjoy pointing out the obvious fallacies and contradictions of their demands.
You should know better than to argue religion with religious fanatics…
The only thing that matters at this point is “what is my chance of dying?”
Everything else is superstition and brainwashing.
I always try to respond by applying this logic to HIV. I make up restrictions designed to slow the spread, like shutting down gay nightclubs and making it a crime to have male-male anal sex without a condom. The only responses I ever get are “that’s different” and “that would be discriminatory against gay people”.
Post your tuxedo pic and we’ll decide.
I see what you did there.
It’s harder to get a tuxedo to drape properly over a PPK than you might think.
Well, if your tux is *sneers* off-the-rack, sure.
A bespoke tux can be tailored to accommodate that PPK.
Homelessness is about a week away (or so I am told) This nomadic internet workaround will come in handy.
actually, speed is not too bad.
at this time, in this place.
this concludes our test.
Posting from an undisclosed location? Praises the quality of the speed?
I can only draw one conclusion: P Brooks is Walter White.
Congratulations to Miggy. Next up 3,000 hits.