We’ve now met the neighbors, Fred and Doris Ziffel, as well as their charming son Arnold. The house needs work, so we called the local guys, Alf and Ralph Monroe. Not that there’s any alternatives. It’s a bit of a haul to the General Store, but when we get there, we always get a warm greeting and helpful service from Sam Drucker. And no matter what odds and ends we need, Eustace Haney always seems to know in advance and shows up with them loaded in his truck. The small town rural life is agreeing with us.
Birthdays today include a guy who would gaslight you; a guy who was pro-integration; what you get when Lurch does Art Nouveau; a guy who made you wonder what is higher, a duke or a count: a guy who was the model for Yosemite Sam; a guy who left as his legacy an Easter Island statue who pretends to know about sports; a guy who was brilliant on… flumpet?; a guy who made some of the best ’70s comedy films; Mr. Twenty Thousand; a guy who finally folded; a guy Sharif didn’t like; arguably the most overrated quarterback in NFL history; and a guy on whom we can blame much.
Let’s do our Links, shall we?
Probably because they’re Jews. Ask DeBlasio.
Probably just a coincidence, amirite? Yeah, that’s it, a coincidence.
Killing an unarmed woman is A-OK if you’re a Brave Man In Blue.
“We just wanted you to see what an idiot we have for a judge.”
Once again Old Guy Music can’t be anything else but this.
Alph and Ralph ?
Not Larry, Daryl, and Daryl ?
whaddup doh’
Mornin
Don’t cross the streams. You will setup some sort of televisual multiverse from which there is no escape.
Until you wake up and discover it was only a dream.
I’m sure SP would love to wake up to Patrick Duffy in the shower….
-1 Man From Atlantis
+1 autistic kid with a snow globe
Biden?
No, wait, he’s the cake eater, right?
Scarlet Witch escaped, uncharged.
They’re over by the orange barrels.
Fuck off, Tulpa? Or a regular sneakily changing handle & avatar simultaneously?
I trust no one.
“On Tuesday, Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, also known as H.R. 4. As Ian Millhiser explained in Vox, H.R. 4 essentially overturns the Supreme Court’s recent attacks on voting rights: Its central provisions give both the Justice Department and federal courts sweeping authority to block voter suppression laws. But one crucial section takes a more creative approach: The House bill actually repeals the court’s own rules for deciding election-related cases—which strongly favor states’ ability to suppress votes—replacing them with voter-friendly directives that would force the justices to safeguard equal suffrage. H.R. 4 also takes on the “shadow docket,” prohibiting the Supreme Court from issuing unreasoned emergency orders reversing lower court decisions that protected the franchise. And it abolishes the legal doctrine that allows the justices to shield anti-voting laws from judicial scrutiny in the run-up to an election.”
I just read the whole thing. IANAL, but it sounds like bullshit.
the Supreme Court’s recent attacks on voting rights
Yep, that’s exactly what it is.
I don’t know precisely how your system works, but I’m pretty sure that the Supreme Court doesn’t actively “attack” the issues du jour.
“Attack” = “Doesn’t rule the way we want”
The courts will not like the usurpation of their authority to issue stays.
Yup, not sure that pissing off every since judge in the country is likely to have them uphold your law as constitutional. But crazier things have happened.
Well, only the federal judges, but they jealously guard their authority.
At this point the Dems are like a Rolling Stones concert; only playing to their base, nothing new coming out.
“voter suppression laws”
Loaded language is loaded.
“reining in an out-of-control Supreme Court.”
Lol, wut?
Something something independent judiciary.
Autocorrect wanted to change judiciary to nudicity.
You do not want to see most judges naked.
What do think is under those robes?
Yesterday, I saw a Perry Mason featuring Max Showalter, then a Perry Mason featuring Edward Andrews. Both played the grandfathers in Sixteen Candles. “Hey Howard, Isn’t that your Chinaman on the lawn?”
“Automobile? ”
Given the stereotype, I doubt they could make those scenes today.
“Now I have a prace to put my hand.”
“Oh sexy girlfriend!”
+1 hyena
arguably the most overrated quarterback in NFL history – not Tom Brady?
Joe Namath?
Donovan McNabb?
Yeah; Namath is who I was thinking.
Ill go ahead and say it…Kaepernick
Agreed. Hell, Doug Williams was better than Namath.
Terry Bradshaw. He’s Trent Dilfer with a personality.
Reminder, off course, that I know nothing of American football and get all my info on the topic from Barry McCockiner
Great read from UCS last night. You have a very engaging voice, keep it up.
I will read it while at work next week
#metoo
UnC, is this from something you have released, or still WIP?
Highly recommend all his books. (Link to his Amazon page in his author bio and in his screen name when he comments.)
I am Romanian I don’t buy books I pirate them
-_-
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Probably just a coincidence, amirite? Yeah, that’s it, a coincidence. – It is strange that a man who works with science like OMWC is a denier
Tough shit, mate. – It is said an afgan who makes it to England gets 72 british 15 year old girls
Jab harder. Jab more and more frequently. Be afraid of one another. We’ll whip this virus.
Checks every box on the casedemic doomporn wishlist.
Riesling ait bad bad damn it expensive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1427-Cd41j0x2loi73K342CbRSH8cMKO-/view?usp=drivesdk
The sparkly kept 36 years with the yeast was interesting but not sure it was the kind of sparkly i want
You have nearly all my favorite Austrian producers there. Damn, nice lineup!
the one I liked the least was the french one 2016 Riesling Kastelberg Gand Cru, Marc Kreydenweiss, smelled really weird for me
2016 Riesling Berg Roseneck Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Georg Breuer, Rheingau had massive acidity which the experts say will need 20 years to be at its best if not 30 but I still liked it
2013 Riesling Spätlese feinherb Bremmer Calmont, Laurentiushof, Mosel, was very nice
like gasoline?
no
I ask because I hear some rieslings smell like that. Didn’t mean “[do you] like gasoline?”
Alsatian rieslings for me; yum.
I think riesling maker take offense of the suggestion… just like sauvignon blanc and cat piss.
Accurate though, re sauv plonk.
I have had Alsatian rieslings I liked just not this one
The left most one was Oliver Bauer, the oenologist who hosted the tasting. Also at the end got a taste of his recently released Pinot Noir, gonna be great in 10 years.
When asked how someone gets to know and have all this wine he said you need work and passion.
I don’t like sweet wine and 1994 Riesling Spätlese Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen, Langwerth von Simmern, had like 90 g of sugar per litter but it still tasted good, with age and acidity
Really? I usually pay $10 for the decent Washington State stuff and 15 to 20 for the French, German, or Finger Lakes bottles.
decent is not what this was about
a guy who would gaslight you
I would have guessed this guy.
I would have went with this guy.
“Babbitt was one of five people, including a Capitol Police officer, to die as a result of the riot.”
Still repeating this lie, huh?
“Trump previously made the false claim that the officer who shot Babbitt was the “head of security” for a “high-ranking” Democratic member of Congress.”
How do you know Trump is lying if they won’t release the criminal’s name?
They are shameless, aren’t they? Imagine selling your soul in order to make a living writing this garbage.
The thing that doesn’t make sense is they even officially corrected the record (not this rag in particular, but I think nyt, and the coroner’s office)
Not sure why, but this j-pop tune is pretty catchy – it’s the opening for the new season of “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid”.
Also catchy.
I have a low tolerance for steaming piles of horseshit. God bless anyone who can make it though that pack of lies.
The officer, whose name has not been released, opened fire on Babbitt as she and a mob of other Trump supporters tried to forcefully enter the Capitol.
Video of the shooting showed Babbitt in front of a crowd of rioters trying to get through a door leading to where members of Congress were being evacuated on the House side of the building.
He’s a hero. They should put a statue of him in the Capitol.
Just go ahead a say she deserved it. You know you want to.
And note how they try to paint those who believe her death was unjustified as a small segment of a small segment of political extremists.
Imagine that she was an Antifa black girl doing the exact same thing and then imagine the narrative.
Unarmed even…
What was the precise deadly threat she presented? That’s why lethal force is supposed to be employed – to stop a deadly threat, not just a threat to some symbol.
They should put a statue of him in the Capitol.
I’d donate to a fund for this. On the condition that he and all the cowards who “exonerated” him hang from it. Of all the awful things that have happened in the new normal, and there are so so many, this crime bothers me the most.
The true evil of the fascists is on full display. Insanity and pure evil are running amuck. I fear 2022 will be the end of days, or at least the end of mine.
WELCOME SMOD
Richard Ebright, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, added: “These were not scientific papers, they did not present scientific evidence, they did not analyse and support scientific data, they were presenting opinion, they did not belong in scientific journals.
“A small group of scientists, aided by journalists, established and enforced a false narrative that science showed Sars-Cov-2 was a natural zoonotic spillover and a further false narrative that this was the scientific consensus.”
This is the inevitable outcome of SCIENCE!-by-political-consensus. Nice work, boys and girls.
Doesn’t surprise me really, how could they have known almost immediately it wasn’t from the lab?
Because that’s what the CCP TOLD them! Duh!
Oh yeah, That was back when they weren’t doing research on coronaviruses in the lab.
Are they even capable of telling the truth these days?
Sure, their truth is whatever they want to believe or is shoved down their throats by the party! Then they regurgitate it.
You mean a truth that is deeper than that, no. No way man.
“reining in an out-of-control Supreme Court.”
It’s all that bitch Ginsberg’s fault.
Something, something, elections have consequences, something.
Masker: So, you think scientists conspired to lie to you about this?
Skeptic: Yes, and now we have evidence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-extends-travel-curbs-canada-mexico-land-borders-through-sept-21-2021-08-20/
Seems pretty fucking pointless when you look at all the illegals they’re letting in.
That’s essential travel.
Good morning, OM, Country living isn’t for everyone, I’m glad you are adapting so well. I.m thinking one, 2 or 3 of the Gabor girls will come into your shop and lighten up the whole village. On the rare occasions that I see someone that doesn’t fit the genetic profile of a local it’s a welcome but short lived sight.
OTOH there’s no reason for me to stay up late, ’cause I know tomorrow will be the same as yesterday. Because of the external-ties of not having a garden this year several neighbors have been bringing their excess zucchini (and other veggies) over so we are still living the high life but without the work.
Hope only the best for you and SP and family in your new venture/adventure.
Country living is VERY much for us. My career to date hasn’t allowed it, but we finally decided, fuck it, let’s live where we want to live.
Can I ask what is you current career?
And how oar the 10 year old in the new area? Any 10s?
Running the kitchen at WebDom’s cafe. Teaching the kids who work there how to cook.
Wait really? I mean it’s not bad work but would be helluva change from previous work
And it sounds heavenly.
So… you’re Hugh Akston?
silly question is it a vegan cafe and do you know how to give tips on cooking meat even if you do not eat it?
What kind of fake Yelp review would be most effective?
The theater of the absurd. Dadaists blush at thought of U.S. international policy.
That was in response to Sean…goddamn it.
*wanders off for more coffee*
Up to half of Czech population may already have COVID-19 antibodies, largescale study finds
Still can’t decide which part of this tweet is funnier – the part where he says Biden didn’t lie once, or the part where he says the media were never this mad at Trump.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1429050161368535042
To be fair, he didn’t lie once, he lied multiple times.
Just go ahead a say she deserved it. You know you want to.
“She desecrated our temple, man!”
Surprised you didn’t land in Petticoat Junction, though I guess those girls were all a little too advanced in years for your taste. Surely you made a point of losing SP’s collection of rusty can lids during the move.
I like how NPR just makes shit up in the article rather than even entertaining the notion that the vaccines are crap and controlling a corona virus with vaccines is impossible.
Yo, Drake…thanks for dropping that info yesterday about the Russian ammo ban. I was able to score some before it went out of stock.
Good!
My local death merchant opens his store at 10. I plan to be there at 10:01.
Deadhead must be terribly jealous
“The most influential event was so many people who went abroad in the summer — vacations — and brought the delta variant very, very quickly to Israel,” said Siegal Sadetzki, a former public health director in Israel’s Health Ministry.
I had no idea New Delhi was such a popular tourist destination for the Israelites.
Whew – a convenient scapegoat.
The judge sided with three drivers and the Service Employees International Union in a lawsuit that argued the measure improperly removed the state Legislature’s ability to grant workers the right to access to the state workers’ compensation program.
OK, I can see that might be problematic as a matter of law – but I fail to see how that violates the state constitution.
In California, it’s unconstitutional for the common rabble to decide what the government can and cannot do.
Which is weird because the state constitution expressly permits that – referendum, initiative and recall!
Silly goose, those are only to be used in Democrat’s hands! History only bends to the left!!!!1!!
Are they even capable of telling the truth these days?
When you say “they”….
NPR? China?
und so weiter
It’s good to know three drivers out of thousands can thwart the openly expressed will of the majority and be DEMOCRACY! in action.
It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up.
https://twitter.com/forensictoxguy/status/1428894011155259393
It hurts to admit that you made a mistake. But if it’s big enough, the pain only lasts for a second.
My career to date hasn’t allowed it, but we finally decided, fuck it, let’s live where we want to live.
You bought a winery? Having a bunch of young grape-stomping virgins running around the place is a heck of a fringe benefit.
The day begins with ill portent. While sipping coffee on the front steps, watching the surfers stream from the subway down to the beach, as is my wont, I managed to shatter my mug. Worse, it broke to the point were I can’t reuse to hold pens/brushes/hobby knives/etc..
I mean mugs are not that expensive. And real men drink coffee in tiny delicate porcelain cups, not mugs
I like to browse thrift store for fun mugs; this one told the world I was #1 Hermano. It’s less about the mug and more about the coffee that is evaporating from the porch and not in my tummy.
My sympathies – a few weeks ago while sweeping up Tranquility Base in anticipation of visitors, I knocked my favorite Dayton Dragons mug off the I’m-sure-it-was-acquired-legally milk crate I use as an end table next to the futon chaise. Luckily, in my case just the handle broke off, so it can reincarnate to it’s next life as a pencil/pen holder.
Moral to the story: While you want a higher-than-average capacity mug for weekend mornings outdoors, make sure it’s one with little to no sentimental value. I now use the one promoting Edison Community College, an institution I never attended and only visited once.
Companies are offering “Sabbath mode” on more appliances to help Jewish users abide by religious laws restricting electricity on holidays. But a feature that freezes an oven’s settings is making some cooks think they broke theirs.
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1428499571643240449
These were features that required a special order when they were introduced. I wonder if the economy of scale achieved by making them universal lowers costs enough to cover what was previously an expensive option. Or, manufacturers just raised the price of the item across the board.
Probably most are complicated enough already that it’s a small difference in price to add that feature.
Crumbling
In his show’s opening monologue on Friday, which has also been published as an op-ed at the Fox News website, Carlson argued that Biden’s officials are “turning on him” and specifically highlighted recent reporting from CNN.
Carlson showed a clip of CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who has been reporting from the capital city of Kabul.
In the clip, Ward said: “It is just an absolute mess. And we heard President Biden say yesterday in his comments to ABC News that this is not a failure. And I think a lot of people outside that [Kabul] airport, particularly those taking the kinds of extreme actions we’re just talking about, would like to know: if this isn’t failure, what does failure look like exactly?”
Carlson commented: “So, Joe Biden failed. And he’s lying about it. That’s what CNN just told us. It is hard to overstate the significance of the clip you just saw. CNN is not a news network. CNN is a political organization. Its anchors and reporters don’t decide for themselves what to say on camera.
When the rats tart abandoning ship, it’s time to keep your eyes peeled for icebergs.
HA! Tulip nailed it on last night’s zoomie. The spectacle of a flag officer speaking after the POTUS, contradicting what POTUS just said is a big deal.
Journalists who actually go out into the field and do these reports are less likely to be blue-pilled. Lara Logan worked for CBS of all places. (Even though CNN and NBC are the worst)
There was a Brit on-the-ground guy who basically said the administration’s line was bullshit as well.
🙁 It’s only 75 out right now, but >88% humidity. I barely made it 1.8 miles before my face felt like it was melting off. (Trying to get a walk in before the rain.)
I average walking 8 miles a day but it is killing my feet I need better shoes. But here when it was really hot I walked mostly between 6 and 7 30 in the AM
anyway embrace walking in the rain. Also singing.
I don’t sing.
how do you know if you don’t try?
He didn’t say he can’t sing; he said he doesn’t sing.
Why do you assume I haven’t?
a hunch
Straighten out your back, even if you are a lab assistant, that’s no excuse for bad posture.
This is some thread:
“TRAVELER BEWARE! Have you ever had a rental car company steal their car back from you? Well this just happened to me. I’m not usually one to take to Twitter in this way. I’m barely ever here. But I feel this is my only option short of taking legal action. So here goes….”
https://twitter.com/tarikhcampbell/status/1428707006412640271
I was just getting into the story but twatter seems to require a login to continue now. Oh well.
I can read the thread but can’t see his main page, whatever that’s called.
Clearing cookies should work.
Well, what do you know. It also stopped the stupid popup that was locking the site.
*digs in*
Well, that’s odd. Sounds like Avis doesn’t have its shit together. Maybe shorthanded like every other company right now?
I was thinking these places are franchisees, not corporate-owned, and a scam by the local franchisee.
They’re just going to have to try harder.
What a nightmare. First world problems but still.
We try harder to f you over.
“Talk about a Friday afternoon ambassador dump, but it’s now official: Rahm Emanuel to be nominated as ambassador to Japan”
https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1428809386835824640
First the atomic bomb, and now this.
I am so sorry, Japan.
Caroline Kennedy…
“What is going on here?” Carlson asked. “These are literally the people who got Joe Biden elected president. He wouldn’t be president without these people. And now, just seven months in his administration, they’re telling you he has failed personally? It does not make sense.”
Carlson said that Afghanistan wasn’t Biden’s first “disaster” as president and suggested there was some other reason CNN was criticizing Biden now: “Call us cynical, but we don’t buy it. Something else is going on here. We don’t know what it is, exactly, but it’s pretty obvious.”
Just wait ’til Air Force Two “disappears from the radar” on the way home from Viet Nam.
The pigeons are starting to piss me off. And this will lead to neighbors thinking I am crazy when I go with a broom on the balcony and swing it at pigeons
Here at the beach, the rough, tough NYC pigeon is largely kept in check by our aggressive seagulls. The gulls will be swarming around some delicious garbage while the pigeons pace around the perimeter; waiting for the larger birds to get satiated.
they can do whatever on the beach the problem is the shit on my window sills and balcony
Yow, even the NYT is throwing Biden under the bus. Or are the staff going to throw a hissy-fit about this like they did the Sen. Cotton editorial?
Why not both?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9912515/Montana-state-ban-vaccine-requirements-employees.html
Maybe the only state with a blanket ban. Healthcare workers cannot be mandated to get vaccinated here. Oh wait, the governor just ignored the law and issues an order anyways.
Biden and four wax dummies..
So, if they bring home in a pine box, a desecrated corpse – hey, Joe said we’d bring ’em home. Way to reassure the country Joe! Way to show the world that America is back.
Country Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk
?
…next stop Afghanistan…
???
Thanks for the memories!
Takin’ the gloves off, Boss
Mississippi’s top health official Friday threatened jail time for people diagnosed with Covid-19 who don’t isolate in their homes.
State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs issued an “isolation order” that states, “All persons residing in Mississippi must immediately home-isolate on first knowledge of infection with COVID-19.”
Failure to do so could result in fines and jail time. Dobbs’ order mentions two possible levels of violation. One, a refusal to obey a health officer, comes with a $500 fine and, possibly, six months behind bars.
But the order says that where a life-threatening disease is involved in a refusal to obey, violators could face a fine of up to $5,000 and possibly five years behind bars.
State epidemiologist Paul Byers said Mississippi has the highest number of new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the nation. “These numbers are staggering guys,” he said during a weekly Mississippi pandemic update.
That number is so unimagineably high there is no name for it, apparently.
Once we have swept away the last scraps of that old yellowed parchment on which the empty promises of the Constitution are scribbled, we can remake this country into a model of efficient governance. Order will be established.
Huh, I wonder if there’s an incentive not to get tested for covid in there somewhere. So, given the sheer stupidity of our testing regimes, silver lining?
See you in the camps!
Johns Hopkins has the receipts. The numbers are not good, but it’s not corpses stacked like cordwood bad.
Cases are high but lower than the record high 5 days ago.
They’re averaging 38 deaths per day for the past 7 days. Out of a pop of 2.9 million people.
Good pic thread from Kabul https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1428910321440366596
Noticed that I don’t have to log in to twitter on my machine if I just type in the address/username and then scroll – no login errors and my firefox is set to require login to everything everytime I close it out. I normally only log in on my phone.
A couple of question/advice regarding a potential article.
When I submitted my ‘symmetry’ article, we had some discussion about dark energy and the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Someone also mentioned (I believe it was Tulip?) that they enjoyed a certain youtuber (?) who had a series simplifying science topics. It occurred to me that it might be an interesting exercise to combine the two; can I understand dark energy/expansion well enough to present a sensible simplified description?
So 2 questions. 1 – would there be interest in such a thing? I don’t want to waste people’s time and website space on something that people wouldn’t enjoy. 2 – I suspect it would get long-ish (not the least reason being that I’m pretty long-winded generally), but there are probably 2-3 good break points in the narrative so that it could be divided in more digestible chunks. So, if 1 is yes, is one long piece better than 2-3 shorter bits?
Thoughts?
Enjoy your Saturday ! Unfortunately it looks like the rain will stay away today and I have no excuse not to go up and re-flash the chimney. Sigh.
DIY takes work from honest tradesman. pay someone to re-flash the chimney.
It’s always a battle between a desire to figure out how to do things and inherent laziness. And being a cheap bastard. I guess that’s two-to-one, so too bad for the honest tradesman?
First: be safe and don’t fall off the roof.
I would enjoy an article you proposed, if I could understand most of it. Smaller bites would be better.
And: I didn’t comment on yesterday’s article, but I liked it very much.
I’m gonna see if I can get the yard mowed before rain comes. I’ll leave y’all with some prophetic 1985 New Model Army – Drag It Down
get the yard mowed – how bourgeois
? Love them
Good morning, Old Man!
I’m glad the move agrees with you both. I gotta say, the change of scenery for me and Mrs. Tundra has been amazingly good.
The world is so fucked up, being a short drive away from the madness (and cell service) is a treat.
I hope all of you have a fantastic day. Me? I’m gonna go help move a herd of goats to a new paddock.
So, lots of Glibs in your new town? Enough to herd?
You made a good call, now the local blue focus is on the Popester.
I’m thinking rounding up Americans in Afghanistan would be like going house-to-house in the Twin Cities, rooting out libertarians.
“Sure, they’re out there but damned hard to find, they look so much like “regular” people”
Lol
(very mildly NSFW
I guess OnlyFans won’t allow it.
Defend the narrative to the death
But even as the two governors, both Republicans, have pushed hard for monoclonal antibodies, they have opposed mask and vaccine mandates that public health officials insist can help slow the spread of Covid-19, and would avert the need for the antibody treatments in the first place.
Dr. Myron Cohen, director of the University of North Carolina Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, said that masks and vaccines remain the best line of defense against Covid.
“You want to prevent any disease you can, rather than treat it, because the consequences of the infection are grave,” he said.
What about making pariahs of the healthy? How does that fit into the treatment regime?
So much bullshit packed into one short sentence. I’m impressed.
Are these governors mandating that masks can’t be worn? No?
Shut the hell up then.
The consequences of crippling your immune system are somewhat more grave, you mendacious twat.
Crumbling, pt 2
Preelection concerns that President Joe Biden wasn’t physically or mentally up for his new job at age 78, the oldest-ever chief executive, are now settling in as the public sees him slow-walking, refusing to consider questions at press conferences, and seemingly befuddled with the crisis in Afghanistan.
Not only has his average approval rating fallen below 50%, the lowest of his presidency, but a new survey has found that in addition to likely voters believing that Biden is not all there, they believe that aides are doing his job.
In the survey, Rasmussen Reports said 52% of respondents said they are not confident that Biden is physically or mentally “up to the job of being president of the United States.” And 41% of respondents said they are “not confident at all.”
——-
The polling shift from a third to a majority having questions about Biden parallel other findings that the public does not expect Biden to finish out his term and expect Vice President Kamala Harris to fill in.
The Rasmussen survey also follows a troubled period for Biden. He has failed to push through his high-spending infrastructure bills, has seen election reform stall, is grappling with the largest illegal immigration crisis in U.S. history, and appears unconcerned about spiking inflation.
Don’t bother to act surprised.
I almost feel sorry for the old fool who ought to be sitting in a rocking chair somewhere and certainly not running the country. Anybody who was paying attention knew his mind was fucked.
Getting ready for Tropical storm Henri in the morning, in right in the part of Ling Island its going to hit—was wondering if anyone has any experience with propane generators. I bought one a while ago and have never had to use it but i have a funny feeling tomorrow might be the day.
I am trying to figure out about how long one bbq sized propane tank would last keeping a refrigerator and some lights on. I have a few full tanks but dont know if thats enough.
I only have limited experience with gasoline generators, but I imagine it depends on the model/capacity?
Please be safe!
There’s some math to figure it out.
Sadly, it escapes me.
\math
You can ballpark it to probably 1-3lbs per hour depending on the load you are trying to keep up.
And depending on the generator itself. You are looking at what? 1500kwh or so with the fridge and lights.
1500kwh or so with the fridge and lights
Are you running a meatpacking operation out of your house? ?
“meatpacking operation.” Phrasing?
A pretty good table for generator consumption here:
http://www.propane-generators.com/propane_usage.php
Should be a good but rough approximation.
I like how they say that site is being updated.
Your generator’s manual should show the run time or on the manufacturers website spec sheet. Fridge is about 700 watts running (starting load will draw higher, ~2800, check the plate), lights 13w-150w each depending on type. Divide load / generator wattage and look at the generator run time (often 50% of load).
Credibility gap
An Oregon school superintendent is telling parents they can get their children out of wearing masks by citing federal disability law. A pastor at a California megachurch is offering religious exemptions for anyone morally conflicted over vaccine requirements.
And Louisiana’s attorney general has posted sample letters on his office’s Facebook page for those seeking to get around the governor’s mask rules.
Across the U.S., religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people circumvent COVID-19 precautions.
While proponents of these workarounds say they are looking out for children’s health and parents’ rights, others say such stratagems are dishonest and irresponsible and could undermine efforts to beat back the highly contagious delta variant.
Mask and vaccine requirements vary from state to state but often allow exemptions for certain medical conditions or religious or philosophical objections.
In Oregon, Superintendent Marc Thielman of the rural Alsea School District told parents they can sidestep the governor’s school mask requirement by applying for an accommodation for their children under federal disabilities law.
Thielman said he hit upon the idea after the governor’s mandate generated “huge, huge pushback” from parents.
“The majority of my parents are skeptical and are no longer believing what they’re told” about COVID-19, said Thielman, whose district in the state’s coastal mountains begins classes Monday. “I’ve got a majority of my parents saying, ‘Are there any options?’”
In a letter to educators this past week, Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said she was shocked that Thielman was undermining her policies by “instructing students to lie” about having a disability.
How can those people possibly mistrust public health experts and government officials? It’s un-American.
OBEY
Narrator: There are already loopholes. Short of locking everyone into a plastic bubble, you are not going to “beat back” shit.
FTFY
Probably the bigger medical concern in Alsea is inbreeding…
And people say there’s no good news these days.
Thielman, who is planning to run for governor next year, when Brown can’t seek reelection because of term limits, said he is not anti-mask but is sensitive to parents’ concerns that face coverings can cause anxiety and headaches in children.
In some cases, he said, he believes those problems justify an exemption under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 because they interfere with learning.
But Laurie VanderPloeg, an associate executive director at the Council for Exceptional Children, an advocacy group, cautioned that under the federal law, children would not be allowed to go maskless simply because they asked.
Under the law, she said, school districts would have to go through a formal process to establish whether a child does, in fact, have a particular mental or physical disability, such as a respiratory condition, that would warrant an exception to the mask rule.
Does that apply to students who profess transgenderism, as well?
Are these governors mandating that masks can’t be worn? No?
Shut the hell up then.
Everything not mandatory is prohibited.
Everybody knows that.
Yep. See seatbelt and helmet laws.
Those would be illegal if not mandated.
The shit appears to be getting real down under.
More here.
When do the cops start mowing them down?
About damn time, the Aussie pols and police have gone off the rails.
Mowing down Aussies? Are they importing Turkish policemen?
This works if you change the lyrics a bit…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc
Glad to see at least some people are fighting back.
They should all claim to be press.
I cheered.
Oregon resident Jenny Jonak, who has an 11-year-old daughter with autism and health problems that make her more susceptible to COVID-19, said wearing masks is a “very small inconvenience” to protect vulnerable students.
“If a child really has a genuine reason, if there’s some sort of breathing or respiratory problem, then that should be respected,” she said. “But if not, then I don’t know what we’re teaching our children if we’re teaching them basically that something as simple as wearing a mask is something that they should bend the rules for.”
The world must reorganize itself to conform to my emotional needs.
Fuck off, slaver.
Catching Vid when you have autism is basically a death sentence.
Ask her if she wears one at all times around her daughter, and for at least eight hours straight every day.
I really, really tried to read the paper on optimal fingerprinting. Way too much math, I’ll see if #2 son can explain it for me.
Then there is this gem from the Climate, etc. article, in reference to a Canadian model:
“WARNING! This model predicts atmospheric warming roughly 7 times larger than observed trends. Use of this model for anything other than entertainment purposes is not recommended.”
LOL. Blame Canada!
“Germany’s Largest Amusement Park Segregates Vaxx’d From Unvaxx’d With Colored Wristbands”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/germanys-largest-amusement-park-segregates-vaxxd-unvaxxd-colored-wristbands
Oh Deutschland, don’t ever change.
“Red wristbands, please board your special train ride. Right this way.”
“4. Israel’s high vaccination rate isn’t high enough.”
When you’re commie but you’re just never commie enough!
“Looming question: Will we need COVID-19 vaccines every several months? We don’t know.”
If you don’t know by now… you’re fucked.
Never too late, Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/the-week-in-pictures-kabul-cabal-edition.php
On the boil
Thousands of protesters defied coronavirus lockdowns to hit the streets of Australia’s largest cities on Saturday, as the country recorded its highest single-day caseload since the pandemic began.
The states of New South Wales (NSW) — home to Australia’s most populous city, Sydney — and Victoria reported a total of 886 infections Saturday, amid a raging outbreak of the Delta variant.
Hundreds of unmasked protesters were seen marching through Melbourne’s Central Business District before confronting police hours after a snap lockdown was announced for the entire state of Victoria.
Six officers were hospitalized in the protests, suffering suspected broken noses, a broken thumb and concussions, police said in a statement.
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Speaking at a news conference, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said “the Delta strain is like nothing Australia has seen before.”
“Even in very strict and harsh lockdowns, the virus is spreading — and that is a fact,” she added. “So what we need to do is to protect ourselves and our loved ones by staying at home, and also by getting vaccinated.”
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Tensions are high, with anti-lockdown protests breaking out on Saturday in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as Brisbane, the capital of Queensland — despite restrictions easing in parts of that state on Friday.
In Sydney, protesters turned up in the center of the city despite warnings from police, who set up check points to prevent people from gathering. In Melbourne, hundreds of protesters marched through the city before they confronted authorities. And in Brisbane, thousands gathered in the city’s botanic gardens, although the state of Queensland recorded no local new cases on Saturday.
You’re just not hitting it hard enough, Australia. Time for live ammo and tanks in the streets.
Hm, maybe you could learn something from this?
“Even in very strict and harsh lockdowns, the virus is spreading — and that is a fact,” she added. “So what we need to do is to protect ourselves and our loved ones by staying at home, and also by getting vaccinated.”
Why has everyone forgotten how viruses work?
“Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt exonerated in internal probe”
After discussing it among ourselves, we’ve decided that we’re not guilty of any wrongdoing.
He’s to receive the Lon Horuichi Award for Public Service in the Federal Sector.
Wasn’t there some firearm/firearm related firm that hired that monster as a spokesmodel, after he left the FBI? I seem to recall something about tremendous backlash when he helmed their booth at a gun show.
Yes
https://www.oregonfirearms.org/11-26-08-gun-maker-hawks-wares-using-hired-killer
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j22R0WPwBlw/Tb3xoSFACYI/AAAAAAAADjo/W1vyqErWyHc/s1600/hs-precision-2.jpg
Second one is satire
Thanks. The second one is awesome. I saw some British doc on the event; Weaver’s (now grown) daughter is beautiful.
“Last February, a group of 27 scientists, including Sir Jeremy Farrar, president of the Wellcome Trust, wrote a letter in The Lancet stating: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.”
However, it later emerged that one of the key people behind the letter was Peter Daszak, who had worked closely with Wuhan scientists researching Sars-related coronaviruses in bats. An addendum to The Lancet letter setting out his links to the Chinese lab was not published until June this year.”
So now that everyone knows what really happened, when are we invading China? No? Sanctions? Why not? Ok… so… what’re we going to do about it?
Daszak and his pal Fauci also get away clean.
Well, that 90 day “intelligence COVID origins review” should be coming out any day now. They should get to the bottom of it all. If there is one thing we in which we can place our trust it surely is our formidable intelligence community.
+1 Russian bounties
If I had my druthers, the world would disregard the PRC. Recognize Taiwan as the only China, establish a maritime exclusion zone around the PRC (sinking or shooting down any attempt to leave the nation), and let the CCP face the people’s justice. All PRC holdings of US FedGov debt should be repudiated and disavowed. All PRC owned property on US soil should be seized. If we are gonna usher in Ragnarok, as we seem to be doing, stop pussyfooting around.
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Yes!
See? Much better than the war option. Fuck the CCP.
The PRC is going to face absolutely fucking zero repercussions for any of the shit they have pulled, including the lab fuck up that released the Vid. Totally infuriating, but they run shit now, and our so called leaders and a large chunk of our corporate elite are now subservient to the Chicoms.
Agree with blockade, but first their nuclear weapon capabilities need to be destroyed. Lets do Russia too. B-2 stealth bombers cost $2B each. Do they work, or not? Bomb all their nuclear capabilities, including research and development sites into oblivion. If they try to start up again, repeat until they get the message. China is no republic and they are our enemy. Anyone aiding or profiting off a relationship with them is a traitor and a slaver.
That’d result in counterproductive Armageddon.
Not if we supposedly have first strike capability. I don’t think we really do, so I’m being hyperbolic.
‘Ok… so… what’re we going to do about it?’
Lie back and think of England.
I’m no warmonger by any stretch of the imagination. That being said, between the IP theft, open infiltration of our academic and legal institutions and the negligence/and or intentionally released virus loosed upon the world that has caused irreparable long term damage and *untold amount of deaths, China deserves a good ass kicking. To be clear, I don’t want a war with China. Just saying it would easily be the most justified war the U.S. would be engaged in since WWII.
*untold because we all know the numbers in the West are wildly over stated and the numbers in China are wildly underreported.
Cowering in fear seems to be working out well for the elites, so that is what we will continue to do.
The real question is when are we going to hang Daszak and his cronies by the balls in some square.
The protests highlight the challenge faced by Australian authorities in sticking to strict containment measures.
For more than a year, Australia was regarded as a success story in containing Covid-19. It sealed off its borders to almost all foreigners, imposed strict quarantines for arrivals, and introduced aggressive testing and tracing regimes to catch any cases that slipped through its defenses.
But its zero-Covid strategy is being challenged by the Delta variant, which is estimated to be as transmissible as chickenpox.
In recent weeks, Australian officials have signaled that they are moving away from the attempt to completely eradicate the coronavirus.
Berejiklian, the NSW premier, said at a news conference Thursday that people would have to learn to live with Delta. “In New South Wales, we are learning that earlier than in other states,” she said.
On Saturday, Berejiklian said she had noticed a “shift of attitude about what Delta means” in her conversations with other state leaders.
“No matter how hard we work and no matter if 99% of people are doing the right thing, there is an element of Delta that nobody can control,” she said.
“We accept that Delta is here, we accept heading to zero across the nation — especially once you open up and live freely — will be an impossible task.”
You might not be able to completely eradicate the virus? No fucking shit, Shirley?
And there’s that “as contagious as chickenpox” line again. Everyone will get it. Everyone will die.
Not by anyone being honest.
More refutation of Dementia Joe
https://af.usembassy.gov/security-alert-embassy-kabul-afghanistan-august-21-2021/
JFC. “Oh, you’d like to head back to your home country because the one you’re assigned to is collapsing and you’re in imminent danger of being dragged through the streets by Islamic extremists? Please fill out this form and take a number. We’ll be with you momentarily.”
Sincerely,
-Unky Joe
I think they are charging $2K/head to evacuate people, too.
Pretty cheap. I can’t even get in and out of the ER for that.
My recent first day at the spa was 8K and all I got to eat was some cookies from the nurses’ station*
* I didn’t order anything other than Oxycontin. The nurses did bring me some cookies though, that I didn’t eat.
*adjusts monocle, strokes white Persion cat sitting on lap*
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Love Count Basie.