Nice match. And yes, I cheated.
The US Open is underway, and everything is going mostly according to plan. Nick Kyrgios bowed out early (unplanned), but he did turn his match into a circus (planned). Tsitsipas took some unusually (well, usual length for him to text his coaches) long bathroom breaks in his five-set marathon win against Andy Murray. And Osaka managed to win her first round match. The next few days will be more interesting than Day 1. In baseball, the Yankees are cooling off, the Dodgers and Giants aren’t, and the Astros are managing to stay at arms-length from the A’s. Ronaldo is officially back with ManUre. And it’s deadline day in the transfer window, so expect some serious shit to go down. Or not. You never can tell what’s gonna happen. Anyway, that’s sports.
Superstar
Big birthdays today are Roman Emperors Caligula and Commodus. They share it with Italian educator Maria Montessori, (female) baseball player Lizzie Arlington, Japanese Emperor Yoshihito, Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, actor Fredric March, comedian Buddy Hackett, actor James Coburn, hockey legend Jean Beliveau, HOF outfielder Frank Robinson, singer-songwriter Van Morrison, actor/gerbil enthusiast Richard Gere, failed prosecutor Marcia Clark, outfielder Claudell Washington, track and field legend (whose streak will never be beaten in any running event) Edwin Moses, drummer Gina Schock, terrorist Hassan Nasrallah, singer Debbie Gibson, and golfer Padraig Harrington.
That was a pretty solid list. Now on to…the links!
Life imitates art
Now that’s how you rob a bank. The only thing I’d have done different is dress them all up as Batman or perhaps clowns.
Two weeks and we’ll find out. I so want this to happen just to watch heads explode on the news.
Here’s a pretty awesome story. Good on those guys who risked their lives in a stupid-ass war we never should have entered, while facing racism from our own government. Incredible bravery.
Could be an awesome crossover horror flick
We had Sharknado. Apparently we now have Gatorcane. Or perhaps Hurrigator. I’m working on the name. But I think I’ll ask Sugar Free to do the script.
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Man, that price seems awfully cheap. Which would be true to form for the government selling something. But also, it is in Oklahoma. So it may have been wildly overpriced.
Somebody buy this guy a beer! Or a whole 12 pack. He deserves it.
This is interesting. And refreshing. Because the bus drivers aren’t the only ones pushing back.
And continuing the theme. Good!
A pretty cool reason to visit Galveston. Wait, let me correct that: this is probably the only reason to ever visit Galveston.
And here’s a happy song for you. Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“Here’s a pretty awesome story. Good on those guys who risked their lives in a stupid-ass war we never should have entered, while facing racism from our own government. Incredible bravery.”
The most existential threat to the US is neither these goat fucking terrorists nor China’s dastardly colonialization plans, but AGW and white supremacy (meaning being against the marxist/fascist shit one party sees as its way to permanent power).
Weird. I thought the existential threat to the USA was the marxist/fascist uniparty trying to seal its grip on permanent power and the cabal of international banks funding this exercise. Probably imagining it. I am clearly mentally ill.
I don’t know about any of that. I was just pointing out that these dudes were pretty brave to go fight in a stupid war they’d probably been drafted into, while still being treated like shit by their government.
I didn’t read the story. I failed you.
Good morning! There’s some promising pushback on the mandate front. The vaccine pass only if you have an updated booster shot is a portal to a hell with no end. It stops here and now or not at all.
Speaking of unstoppable things, the Caldor Fire is threatening to burn down South Lake Tahoe. Neat.
Get your shot every five months or you can’t go to a restaurant doesn’t appeal to many people does it? A lot of people just put their heads down and got the shot so they’d be left alone but the realization is setting in that they’ll never leave you alone.
We got the two tiered society thing here in L.A. And I lucked out and got one of the few vax mandates at my work. Pisses me off.
New recommendation by those fighting for Liberty against vaxx mandates. Never quit. Make them fire you for that reason.
As the numbers of Americas who are not getting the vax are revealed, its clear there is strength in numbers. Additionally, woke companies are relying on vax compliance without any scientific fact to justify the vax mandates.
Make companies put in writing that they are firing you because you wont get a vaccine (even if you already had the SARS-COVID19 virus). Then sue in federal court under the Civil Rights Act (religious exemption) and/or Americans with Disabilities Act (reasonable accommodations). Additionally the Nurnberg Code, demands that all person subject to a medical procedure must give voluntary consent. America and every Allied nation went after the Nazis for involuntary medical experiments. We all know the Democrats pushing these vaccine mandates are Nazis and warn them that the Nurnberg Code judgments will be used against them too.
Most importantly, there is no constitutional law that allows government to force Americans to take a vaccine.
Make sure your company knows that they are blackmailing, extorting, threatening, forcing, and firing Americans for not taking an experimental drug without any legal authority to do so.
“New recommendation by those fighting for Liberty against vaxx mandates. Never quit. Make them fire you for that reason.”
I am vaxxed. My employer asked for my status. I told them it was none of their business. They told me that I had to get one because they want that so they can bring people back into the office (we are all IT working remote right now in my area). I brought a contract in for them to sign admitting they are forcing me to go get a vax and that they thus are legally liable if anything happens because of it. They told me they wouldn’t sign and that they needed time to review with their lawyers. They somehow found out I had gotten the vax and then dropped demanding I provide proof. I am looking at what HIPAA violation happened that gave them that info, cause if they contacted my medical provider to get this, I plan to sue the fuck out of them after reporting them.
HIPAA protects your health information unless you give consent (with some exceptions). Technically, the keepers of your medical information are responsible, not your employer.
Furthermore, employers can sometimes get health information if they need for FMLA, sick leave, etc. Having your employers partially cover your health insurance, also might give them a back door to your health information. ANOTHER REASON TO GO BACK TO PAYING CASH FOR MEDICAL CARE. Having private catastrophic health insurance for major medical care.
Employers have been advised on this and have found ways around HIPAA. Another is self-reporting.
You might have a claim against your employer if they violate ADA. They have to keep your health information separated from your employee file. ADA scares the shit out of employers, so you might get a settlement that route.
Additionally, discovery is a powerful tool against employers. NO employer wants an ex-employee demanding all sorts of internal memos, executive employee files, etc during discovery. In suits against employers, you can literally claim lost wages that you might have had for 5-10-20 years as damages.
Do employers really want to face potential $1 million in lost wages just so they can impress the woke armies?
That’s scary AF that they were able to find out you were vaxxed. I wish you luck in suing them. I hope there’s not a provision in HIPAA that allows them to legally do that, but if so exposing that info would be useful. I know a good lawyer for this, but I don’t know if he practices in your area.
These might go class action. In which shopping good venues that are sympathetic to fighting vax mandates will be important. No federal action in San Francisco for example.
Keep a logbook (on the sly) too. If they get on your ass note the participants, the circumstances, the gist of what was said, etc. Management is almost certainly doing the same.
Did your doc give you the exemption?
I go at 3:00 cold ocean time.
The Lefties in the media are trying to downplay Israel’s supported claim that (((Israelis))) that got SARS-COVID19 had a stronger resistance to strains of this virus than those that got the vaccines.
Also, Florida is big in the news because the Lefties need to destroy the fact that keeping your state open means less deaths from SARS-COVID19. Commies in the media are trying the scare lies against Florida.
Florida had ~4,900 deaths while infected in the last 28 days. According to JHU sick map.
Florida has about 175,000 residents die each year from all causes. According to CDC.
COMMENCE FREAK OUT BLUE STATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s obvious that the vaxes don’t do much for the older and the already sick, in other words the most vulnerable. Therapeutics are badly needed because this shit ain’t cutting it.
Nothing needs to be done in America for SARS-COVID19. Everyone who wanted to get the vaccine, got it. Everyone else were exposed to the virus, will be exposed, or got sick. It kills <1% of those in America, just like Influenza.
I have never heard of a single American who got SARS-COVID19, have a severe reaction to the virus, and was denied entry to a hospital. The media would have surely covered that story.
I am thankful that the Democrats used the virus tyranny to speed up their attempted Commie takeover of America. It just speeds up Civil War 2.0 and how it will resolve. Incremental Commie tactics were working well in taking over America. This desperate thrust of tyranny, not so much.
I would agree but there are a shit ton of people who are petrified about this thing and they vote and have political influence. An acceptable treatment is needed or we’ll never get out of this entirely self-imposed trip over the cliff.
I might be atypically paranoid but it seems like a decent number of people with power and influence do not want us to get out of this at all, ever.
Exactly. There is a reason that the USSR, Iran, North Korea, Cuba want a perpetual enemy. To rally the useful idiots and the frightened against some person, place or THING.
Fear and hate the Nouns! They are our ENEMY!
/Shitty song
Everyone who is scared shitless should get the vaccine. It might make them feel better.
The reality is this is irrational fear and those who want power, using tyranny of the frightened to get it. FDR did the same thing in WWII against the Japanese-Americans. FDR could have publicly said that America has nothing to fear from Americans of any race or creed. While privately watching high risk German, Italian, and Japanese Americans for spying for Axis Nations. Instead FDR had the Japanese-Americans put in camps.
This is about a power grab and that is why Civil War 2.0 will end in the Tree of Liberty being watered.
Morning!
Man confronts NBC News correspondent Shaquille Brewster on live TV during Ida coverage
Moments later, the man got in Brewster’s face before the correspondent calmly ended the report. The man could be heard shouting at Brewster to “report accurately.”
“Hey, hey, hey,” concerned anchor Craig Melvin said. “We’re going to check in with Shaq Brewster just to make sure all is well. There’s a lot of crazy out there, a lot of crazy.”
I saw this first thing this morning. Very illustrative of Commies in the Propaganda service trying to spin stories to save their service to the Democrat Party.
Even the reporter said that he turned because people go up to reporters. The media tried to make this reporter out to be a HERO. He kept reporting even when this “crazy” person yelled REPORT ACCURATELY. See, giving your opinion that the media might not be reporting accurately makes you crazy. Yelling during high winds of a hurricane, makes you dangerous.
I’m just not sure how we as Americans can resolve Commies living in America trying to destroy America from the inside out, without the historical bloodshed.
Have a good day!
When you call the propagandists out, do you think they are going to just say “Well, you caught me playing with a baseball bat in my asshole, my bad” or do you think they are going to pretend that they were being noble and the one that exposed their racket is in the right?
That’s the buy this guy a beer article above. The commenters at Daily Mail seem to think he should be shot like the Capitol Hill lady.
::sobs into pillow::
At least you’re not biting it? I mean, always look on the bright side of life, eh?
And then drugs fell out of his ass.
Watching the news this morning, the spin seems to be that this is a great in historic day on which the great president Joe Biden has ended America’s longest war, at last.
Interestingly, they did not make many direct statements. It was mostly in the tone of the coverage. They did in fact mention that there were Americans trapped. But the spin they laid on it was that they may have chosen to stay. They played the clip of our government assuring us that if they wanted to leave, the state department would help them.
Laughs and smiles all around, and cut to more serious issues, like rescuing people from The floods in Louisiana.
The Today show interviewed the lieutenant Governor of Louisiana. It was a very friendly interview, but Hoya Kotb still managed to grill him harder about when the power would be back on than anyone in the national press has grilled our president about salient questions such as why did they abandon bagram Air Force Base.
Why did they leave 61 dogs locked in travel containers in the airport? I’m going to have to assume that the dog thing was fake and designed to gin up anger because no American would be so monstrous as to abandon dozens of dogs in helpless confinement.
Maybe THIS would be the final straw that would make everyone feel we should send 100K troops in to fight for another 20 years and get nothing for all those destroyed lives and trillions pissed away…
What!? Do you really think that the propaganda is designed to get us to go back? No it just pisses me off and makes me dig in my heels and say no to any and all military adventures.
Sorry Taiwan, good luck with the PLA.
Taiwan in concert with Japan and South Korea would fuck China up in a naval war. The US isn’t needed.
China’s intentions on the world stage are clear. The USA’s are not. I just have this maybe not so irrational fear that the stage is set for something big.
It is irrational in the sense that there’s nothing in my personal agency to do anything about it. So yeah, time to improve the things actually within my grasp.
China’s plan is not to engage in a real or protracted naval war, but to use asymmetrical warfare (ship hunting conventional ICMBs and saturation attacks of air facilities with conventional ICBMs, for example) to cause so much chaos that they will get the week or so they need to land troops and take Taiwan, after which everyone will just accept the status quo. The one thing that prevents them from doing this is that right now they lack enough of a precision capability to avoid destroying the infrastructure in Taiwan that they want to take over (Taiwan manufactures ALL the worlds chips, and China wants that to improve its own military AND fuck the rest of the world over with). Japan, South Korea, but especially Taiwan, at this point, should accept that if a democrat is in the WH they can’t count on the US (and maybe even if a republican is considering the top brass is a bunch of woke idiots), in fact, they should assume that when a democrat is in the WH that China is calling the shots for the US, and set up a nuclear deterrent of their own. The only thing that will stop Beijing from this adventurism against Taiwan, where the prize is so great for them, is the prospective loss of a few of China’s most populous and industrial cities.
I am hoping Taiwan has put some nukes on cruise missiles and configured them to be launched from their subs. If they have not, they should. And they should then let China know this is the case. The policy of not admitting this because it would make it even harder for them to get more conventional armament should be abandoned because they can’t keep up with China’s buildup. At this point it needs to be about making China pay so high a price that the adventure becomes not worth it, and they can’t rely on others to do it for them.
Sabotaging a chip plant would be ridonkulously easy.
With a little effort you could make it so it wouldn’t be noticed until sort.
Taiwan ought to to set up a shit ton of artillery tubes aimed at TSMC and all the other fabs and ask China how badly they want to take over once all the semiconductor manufacturing is reduced to rubble.
In 10 years when China has a fully operational space station, it won’t matter. Orbital platforms are the new Aircraft Carrier. China gets that and is going to be first to get there.
Luckily they only seem to give a shit about their hemisphere. The US will lose two carrier fleets and settle into its role as imperialist also-ran that is increasingly irrelevant as it perpetually leaves the world stage to naval gaze.
In many ways, we are going through what Britain went through in the 70s. The communists are flexing their muscle and destroying our economy, while we cede our international power to more vigorous countries.
List of PLA Navy ships
You can tell a lot from the registry of active ships a nation has.
China has only a few nuclear powered subs and less than a dozen diesel subs.
They have almost 30 amphibious ships. There is a very clear reason why. They need the capability to invade various areas at once or land so many screaming chinamen that you cant dislodge them.
China also invested heavily in anti-submarine destroyers, corvettes, etc.
Xiamen, China to Taichung City, Taiwan is only 164 miles.
China is building those man-made islands to create a defense barrier just like Imperial Japan tried with islands in WWII.
China’s biggest hurdle is after conquering Taiwan is how to re-engage the World economy. China got away with it with Tibet. That and what happens if China attacks but is unable to conquer anything.
That’s why they’re going to try to do it without a fight. Get the PLAN in the way (which they can do), gin up some kind of diplomatic/economic kerfuffle, and basically announce that it’s all peaceful, but everything going in or out will be managed through PRC Customs & Immigration.
They want the world to wake up to it being a fait accompli. And that everything can continue just as it is, just with a new boss. Their bet is that everybody will take the deal.
And for internal-to-ROC things, they’ll announce that it’s just like Hong Kong (carrot and stick combined in that message).
“China’s biggest hurdle is after conquering Taiwan is how to re-engage the World economy.”
They are counting on all the people they have already bought (or on whom they have dirt and can keep blackmailed) to help. That and owning the world’s one chip manufacturer and the impact that would have on the modern western world if they resisted or didn’t accept China’s play. So far they have often gotten away with some real shitty and evil things. Look at the Uyghurs. Why would they doubt they can fix even this?
“China got away with it with Tibet. That and what happens if China attacks but is unable to conquer anything.”
There are no sure things, but then again, the Chinese government nor military is run by men that worry about global warming or white rage nor do they worry about atrocities or other people’s opinion (winning is all that matters), so defining a victory here is difficult.
People forget that our political and money class is wholly owned by China. The political class has whored itself to the CCP in a way that is disgusting. And our money classes are stuck between a rock and a hard place considering they have trillions of dollars tied up in China that can/could not be repatriated and it would destroy them if China’s CCP just told them it was now their money and to fuck off. These people will surrender the rest of us in a second to keep their perks…
China doesnt have to “own” Commies in America.
Just like the Commies in America followed the USSR voluntarily, the same is happening today. Now, some Americans wont comply so blackmail and using the woke army must be used.
“That’s why they’re going to try to do it without a fight.”
That’s classic Art of War. The best generals are unknown because they won without a fight.
I saw that last night. Tried to look it up and found conflicting articles. Some complaining that we left the dogs there to make room for random Afghanis. Some complaining we transported the dogs instead of refugees. None had any real information.
“Say it ain’t so, Joe. Man, that price seems awfully cheap. Which would be true to form for the government selling something. But also, it is in Oklahoma. So it may have been wildly overpriced.”
So if it can’t be a zoo, can it be a brothel?
If you’re going to set up a shady menagerie, you get the cheapest land available.
I wonder if the tiger bones buried there can be sold for a decent price.
Make it a brothel for furries and keep all the zoo furnishings. I’m writing the business plan today and expect to secure funding by the end of the week.
It’s Oklahoma, man. Ain’t nobody coming.
if it is legal Oklahoma could become the furry mecca
It’s Oklahoma, man. Ain’t nobody coming.
I mean it was a zoo. But you make a good point. You would be better off doing this in someplace known to be godforsaken like Youngstown, OH.
I thought OH was for juggalos not furries
Common misconception my European friend. The largest furry convention is in Pittsburgh, PA which while godforsaken isn’t forsook enough for a zoo-themed furry brothel. That’s why I propose moving it 90 minutes west to Youngstown. We can site it next to the tilapia farm.
While the gathering of the Juggalos is in Ohio, it’s in Central Ohio, much closer to Columbus then Youngstown. Even people who are from Youngstown don’t want to admit they’re from Youngstown. They’ll say they’re either from Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Hey! Them’s fighting words. (Or fuc$ing words?)
Hey! I had some really great sex in Oklahoma!
Was someone else involved that time?
I even has a threesome where the girls weren’t girlfriends prior!
Does it count as a threesome if all they let you do is listen to them in the room next door?
observational threesome
Morning. My brain is numb, and I have to get work stuff wrapped up before my vacation.
I feel like I’m falling apart mentally. Need to get away from here.
. Need to get away from here. – you should move to Europe
I need to go someplace better, not worse.
At the dealership. They don’t have the state inspection stickers ’cause vid. And the Bembo brakes be making noise like money falling out of my wallet.
And the coffee machine is broken. WT absolute F?
Using hostages as shields on cars was used by bank robbers in the US during the 1930s.
you need to know how to tie people to cars properly.
Read a German account where the British did this near Caen during the Normandy invasion. A Brit recon unit got trapped behind German lines – they tied a captured German officer to the front of their vehicle. Apparently he was a popular officer – the Germans let them pass without firing.
Last evening I wasn’t around, but in perusing the thread this morning I saw this link, about Putin banning vaccine mandates in Russia.
Several commenters noted this line.
Yeah, I’m not sure how this is “undercounting.” Unless the argument is that so few deaths get autopsies that the numbers may be lower by that metric.
They probably are undercounted BUT we overcount here. I’d prefer the former if I had to pick one as it doesn’t make people so panicky.
Only when everyone is triple vaxxed and triple masked will we beat the pandemic. so get with the program.
triplequadruplequintuplesextupleseptupleoctuplenonupledectuple…
n-tuple
I just want everybody to know that the low comment count from yesterday made me rethink my entire links process. Which is why I chose to get a little more lighthearted and/or positive with the ones I chose today.
I’m still gonna probably do the same milk run of sources, but I’m gonna at least try to find a few that aren’t completely depressing. I’ll leave that to you guys in the comments.
Maybe it was just a case of the Mondays
^^ This. Monday before Labor Day weekend. I appreciate a little more levity in the links; however, if you don’t provide enough, the commentariat will link their own outrages.
My G-d, I have a five-day (((weekend))) coming up. I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl.
You can fit a lotta Columbo episodes in five days.
You can clip a lot of Columbo videos and mash them up with Biden videos in five days.
I’m going to play with a learnin’ keyboard that is arriving tomorrow. Maybe I’ll learn something.
Next week I have a one day work week. Then off to what will probably be the smallest Viva ever (no Aussies, no Kiwis, no Brits, no one from Japan).
I’m happy with everybody linking their own outrages. But if I’m able to offset the rage with a few laughs, I think I’m gonna do so going forward.
Maybe. But it got me thinking that I’m not contributing to the mental well-being of everybody here, myself included, when I post a bunch of depressing shit one link after another. I’m gonna try to be a bit more upbeat.
Which is why I mentioned the Yankees cooling off.
Even in the OT comments it seems to me the depressing shit has more engagement oftentimes, though this is not particularly healthy. Glibs are getting blackpilled not whitepilled, so at least they are not racist
Thats depressing to some. How are the Giants doing this. A genie mustve granted them a wish to turn every player into a stud.
Mocking the Yankers is always appreciated.
It could have just been Monday. Or that we’ve been utterly bludgeoned by frustrating/enraging/depressing stories and out collective amygdala is fried. I think it was just Monday.
Just busy with my actual job here yesterday!
They could have chosen Gary Coleman years ago.
Whatchu talking about, CPRM?
What are you talking about?
He would have gone all in on the fake train project, no doubt.
Did the Australian truckers barricade the roads like they said they would? Or was it more bluster from a thoroughly subjugated people?
Why rent control isn’t working in Sweden
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555.amp
myself, I blame the profit motive
Woody Allen and other wealthy people approve.
Well, those lifers aren’t going to give up those contracts if they live elsewhere.
Because rent control never works? For that matter price controls on anything never works.
Good. I am so sick of his shit.
The ESPN coverage is as dreadful as I expected. “Let’s take a break from this match between two people we don’t give a shit about and suck Joker’s dick some more.”
I didn’t even mention the best player in the world. Thank you for doing so.
::lights fuse…runs away::
The only redeeming feature of this shit-show is the conspicuous absence of so many others whom the idiot commentators would otherwise be fawning over during every break in the action.
Only 1 school in all of Long Island fighting the mask mandate. I think they might be the only one in the whole state.
Good for them.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/newjersey.news12.com/amp/locust-valley-school-board-vows-to-fight-state-school-mask-mandate
Good on Thurston and Lovey, standing up for liberty. The mask mandate was probably come up with by a Yale man.
Can you throw resistors and capacitors and integrated circuit in the garbage or should that sort of thing be recycled
Roast them over an open fire in your back yard to collect the precious metals that will melt and run out. Inhale deeply, as the capacitors contain electrolytes, which your body needs.
And plants crave.
If you give them to your orphans, they can recover the metals for you.
I have an orphan sized soldering station so they can scavenge electronic for useful components.
You can throw anything you no longer want in the garbage. It’s the garbage. That’s what it’s for.
Yeah, but he might not be up to date on his bribes to the State Trash Police.
When they show up to collect, chop them up and put them in the garbage too.
Jeez, this is pretty basic stuff people.
A table saw works *really* well
Too Soon!
One of our members cut his hand real bad with one of those!
I am offended on his behalf and hope he doesn’t see how insensitive you are.
Bwahahahaha!
The mob concurs… Ask Jimmy Hoffa.
You have to take it to a State Approved Destructor of Ipads and Software Things. You pay the proper fee, then they throw it in the trash
If there was a place I could take it I would. But they all talk about TVs and refrigerator and batteries. Not a bunch of basic components.
Did you have these cause you were building a trigger device?
They are left from my father and I never got around to throwing them away
Was he building the trigger device?
no
Instant poll:
Do you people call it “trash” or “garbage”?
I call it trash in the house but garbage when it makes it to the outside bin.
Also, enjoy this.
Rubbish
This is unacceptably British.
Lonnie Donegan’s Dad, hardest hit – https://youtu.be/ODEShfdxoR0
Or Irish, binged Moone Boy this last week.
OOh… How was it? The trailers looked quite good.
I enjoyed it. I watched the first couple episodes when they came out, but then forgot about it. But I’m also a Chris O’Dowd fanboi. watched Dinner For Schmucks because he was in like 1 scene.
Moone Boy is funny
Makes me sad his Get Shorty reboot show has been in limbo since covid started.
Moone Boy, so charming! And where I learned to pronounce Padraig (Porrig). Gotta track down Season 3.
They’re all on Prime, that’s where I binged.
in the dustbin?
Kitchen refuse is “garbage”. Everything else is “trash”.
Republicans are garbage, Democrats are trash, and Biden is offal.
Refuse…
I call it “home”
::golf clap::
You probably call junk, treasure too.
Well, my junk, sure.
I use them interchangeably but think trash is the more versatile word. I rarely use “waste” or “refuse”. I NEVER say “rubbish”.
Balderdash! No Malarkey, Man!?
Waste is trash. I reserve garbage to describe certain people.
Inside the house are trash cans (with trash bag liners) and a garbage disposal. The garage has garbage bags and a garbage bin.
Everybody has been bringing up Faye, and I should say if I can leg press and do squats in this then it’s functional enough.
https://twitter.com/xXAutumnIvyXx/status/1430316059202965507
thicc?
Man do I love Cowboy Bebop. Why are people talking about it now anyway? Are they going to do a terrible westernized live action version? They should not do that.
But maybe then we can get the porno parody we deserve.
Reverse Cowgirl Bebop?
This HAS to exist but I’m way too at work to go hunting for it.
Don’t Expect Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop to Be a Straight Remake
Star John Cho knows you can’t beat the original anime, you can only “do something a little different.”
https://gizmodo.com/dont-expect-netflixs-live-action-cowboy-bebop-to-be-a-s-1847584820
It says something when fucking California gives up on the mandate and we haven’t. *drops head*
As stated before, holding firm for now,
YMMV, and there is clearly not a one-size-fits-all for kids, but IMO, Maria Montessori was a freaking genius.
My daughter is in year 3 of it, she is K so the oldest of her cohort. We will see how far we go, her current school has grades 1-3 and 4-6 classes. Research suggests that there are clear benefits up thru 3rd grade and there hasn’t been enough research done on the older groups to determine. I figure, at worst, it will be no worse than some other method.
Lol School board getting wrecked by a real life Bart Simpson. They aren’t the brightest are they.
https://twitter.com/AdamCrigler/status/1432505707639840776
That was just what I needed!
I know it’s immature to laugh at these as much as I did, but I can’t help it.
Phil McCracken, Sook Medick, and Ophilia Mekok, Ileen Dover… HAHA HAHA!
Henrico County, VA
That was fantastic!
Fuck it. I’m going to bed. Do as you will. Be well, Glibbies!
Bye Festus! I hope you do something you enjoy! Until next time!
“Now that’s how you rob a bank. The only thing I’d have done different is dress them all up as Batman or perhaps clowns.”
Or Dead Presidents. “Point Break” is a pretty good movie.
Fight me!
Baseball birthdays missed: HoFer Eddie Plank. I don’t know what source he is using, but sloopy regularly misses the pre-war HoFers.
Also better than Claudell Washington are:
Tom Candiotti, William Bell, Duke Farrell, Von Hayes, Hideo Nomo, and Red Ehret.
And Nomo would be higher if Japanese equivalencies before he came to the US at age 26 are included.
Titty Tuesday is immune to all pathologies.
https://archive.is/x6b7N
I wanna be the dude with raven haired beauty. It’s my birthday wish. Wait, is that a sex-toy advertisement?
Thanks for not spiking my blood pressure first thing in the morning Sloopy. Snorted at Gatorcane.
Another point in this horrible story of murder.
Why did Officer Michael Byrd only fire one shot?
If the protesters/trespassers/vandals were all the worst domestic terrorists since Eva, why didnt he empty his service weapon?
Probably because he ND’d and is in too deep to admit it.
I’m sure they have video from his side of the door. I’d be very curious to see it. I’m guessing he probably panics after pulling the trigger.
Global Warming Narrative Takes Another Hit
That and Georgia has an unseasonably not HOTLANTA Summer. While the rest of the USA was cooking at 95F+ degrees, Georgia was seeing <90F weather and rain 2-3 times a week. For those that dont know, Georgia normally has 60%+ humidity and 90F+ temperatures through most of the Summer with rain about 1-2 times bi monthly.
Dallas has been mild and rainy, too.
Electricity bill confirms.
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning to all the Glibs!
Interesting story about the Hellfighters. I’ve been geeking out on WWI lately, but hadn’t come across those guys.
I am happy to see the pushback against the mandates. Doesn’t January 2020 seem impossibly far away?
Great song to start a great day! Thanks!
Stossel gets soft. But still better than most media.
They work, just not super effective. And they cause much more harm than most vaccines. If you combine that with the age effects of covid, I would guess (I have thought about doing the calculaton but havent the time to dig into it all) that the breakeven point is somewhere around age 40.
Possibly a bit higher.
It goes back to what I have said all along, at age 70 I would be first in line to get the vax, at 50 I was ambivalent and got it when it was convenient, at 30 I wouldnt get it.
I think that’s a pretty fair assessment. I’m turning 50 in a few months, and I’m looking to make an appointment. My kids are younger than 25, and I don’t want them to get one. Well maybe the oldest, she is very overweight and is probably high risk. Mrs. TOK tends to have severe allergic reactions to just about anything, and I’m totally against her getting one. Mom and Dad are in their 80’s, they got one, and I think that was a good move.
Why does this have to bee so complicated?
I would put the break-even point around 50.
The vaccine works — it prevents death from COVID at 99% or better. And, the vaccine has killed people and has given other people serious medical problems.
It’s a basic risk/reward analysis. COVID is catastrophic for the elderly with comorbities. COVID is not a threat to the overwhelming majority (again 99% or more) of young healthy people.
Mandating the vaccine for young, healthy people is evil.
Absolutely on everything. My personal break-even was right about 50, I got it at 51.75 but was in no rush whatsoever. I just think the death risk break-even is a bit lower than the totality of everything break-even.
I would put the break-even point around 50.
I think I had it a little bit closer to 60 in my mind, but that was before a lot of the spike protein concerns started circulating.
Assuming that the vaccines are effective and safe in the short to medium term (next 3 or so years) and that nothing is known about after that period, I’d say a 50 year old with minor comorbidities should strongly consider it.
However, given the FUD around effectiveness and short to medium term safety, I wouldn’t get the shot right now unless I was in the high risk category. Waiting a few months for everything to iron out is a limited risk for all but the high riskers.
What’s interesting and rare here is that the risk analysis framework here is generally agreed upon. The discussion is based on the ages to which it applies and underlying health.
It’s incredibly refreshing compared to the compared to the appeals to authority in the news and coming from DC.
My mental math more closely aligned with kinnath.
Too many INTPs here.
Hey!
You rang?
Challo?
I was taking a cheap shot at myself (and you all too).
If I could remember what all those letters stoof for, I might be offended.
Good discussion, who knew it was possible to make rational choices in the midst of a panic? I’m 68, and choose not to get jabbed because I don’t trust a vaccine which was rushed through testing due to political pressures. I have no issue with others who have a different take, we each get to make a choice that makes sense. At least we used to.
I’m only…checks calendar…38. If things had been handled different, I may have gotten vaxxed at some point when it was convenient. People who don’t trust it now, to me, feel like reactionaries to the people who didn’t trust it because Trump was in charge. ‘I’ll never take the Trump Vaccine!’
But, as it has played out with bribes and mandates, I will not get it, on principle.
Hell, I could profit $600 from getting it! Why not!? Because I will not be bought, even if it’s something I would have done of my own volition.
Wait…why the fuck am I singled out as the baby on Zooms?
It’s that soft choir boy voice.
Probably this, OBE.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uoGIphWxk
He’s mostly right although I’m not sure about the spread rate thing. That part is still up in the air.
the assertion that the only reason the death rate is down this time is due to the vaxx verses prior immunity and other factors like knowing how to treat people VS putting everyone on a vent by doctors who don’t know how to do that feels a bit un-sciency to me…
Apparently, yesterday was National Toasted Marshmallow Day.
Thanks for the music link. I really like that song.
September 19th is the next Coney Island Denos Wonderwheel stickball tournament.
Me and some friends still play once a year at a blockparty in Brooklyn and we entered this thing last year just to have some fun. Wound up wiping the streets with teams from all over the city. Guys on other teams half our age using $300 specialized stickball bats and we embarrassed them all. Excited to try and do it again. Little excitement in my suburban dad life.
This was the feel good story mood lift I was looking for. That’s awesome Jerms!
$300 stickball bats? Think I’ll put some brooms up for auction on eBay.
I have been working on a hypothesis regarding the Cathedral’s abject failure in Afghanistan. I contend that in order for the Cathedral to maintain a stable of useful idiots/true believers IOT create consensus and otherwise placate the plebians, while they go about the business of accumulating wealth and power. However, I think that the Cathedral has made the mistake of letting the useful idiots get too high in the power structure.
I think that it explains a great deal of the current insanity. Dunno, just spitballing here.
Competence is not desired among the Elite. Competence opens you to judgment from the non-Elite, and that’s more than the Elite can bear.
The truly amazing, truly ahistorical feat of the enlightenment was the idea that Status could be accorded by what one does, rather than by bloodline and intrigue. Our present endarkening is rejecting all that, rolling the clock back to ‘who your parents are, what school you went to, and how good you are at negotiating court politics.’
Very well put.
This sort of thing is why I’m getting out of management and back into my exact technical specialty where I know my “success” will be determined by merit.
Thumb up!
Did you cut your thumb off just to use that joke?
I dunno, some days I wonder if an absolute monarchy would be better. At least the aristocrats are honest and for every Ivan the Terrible there is a Peter the Great (not that he was an all-around peach either, but, as Russian Monarchs go he was better than average). I mean there was at least a chance that you would get a just king. Nowadays that seems like better odds than we have now.
Kidding, probably less than I would have been yesterday.
The Scott Adams hot take on this is to compare it to a big corporation. In that case, if the CEO mandates something, and the underlings don’t want to do it, they will drag their feet and do a shitty job. Perhaps the same thing happened here. Biden (and Trump) demanded the withdrawal, the higher ups in the military didn’t want to do it (because perpetual war and $$), and they did a shitty job on purpose. That doesn’t seem too far fetched.
We’re getting some good thunderstorms and rain this morning in San Diego North. Hopefully that will help prevent more wildfires.
It’s a welcome show too.
Did your Patreon perk ever arrive?
Yes, and I’ve mentioned it on here a few times in answer to your questions but we never seem to be on at the same time.
Both tile trivets are here. I’m particularly fond of the double-fisted Diet Coke H&H one.
Yeah, one of the faults of our 90s message board style here. Glad to hear it. Display them in a place of prominence, as is fitting.
Robby Soave, inciting violence.
Robby Soave is my favorite liberal.
I suppose that telling Amherst to eat a diseased ass, signing up for a (commercial HVAC/electrical/welding/etc) apprenticeship, and saving the quarter-mil to buy a house with, is completely out of the question?
I think that the fiction about a college being the right place for everyone is starting to lose its luster. This is particularly true for young men who are getting pretty sick of spending tens of thousands of dollars to be told that they are the cause of society’s ills. I predict an increase in the number of people going into the trades over the coming years.
I rather enjoyed college. But after 10 years of doing it I was glad to get that Bachelors Degree and be done.
Senator Blutarski?
Tommy Boy did it faster than me, he was a jeenious.
So, Doctor CPRM?
I believe they have a Mechanics of Ass Eating class that you can take there.
Where the hell do I sign up!?
I hope this shit is not how this plays out….
I am detecting a theme in the feature pictures for morning links this week.
California’s next governor could be a Black conservative who would erase state vaccine and mask mandates, is critical of gun control, disputes the notion of systemic racism in America and opposes the minimum wage because he says it tramples the free market.
YES!
With all the Glibs voting for me and people like me kicking money into his tip jar, how could he possibly lose?
The all-Black Army regiment nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters battled both the German forces and racism during World War I. Now, more than a century after their service, the unit has been honored with a “long overdue” Congressional Gold Medal.
Good.
About 2,100 students, including 990 in special education, were given no more than two days’ notice that their bus route no longer existed. District officials said they received word Friday from the private companies with which they contract for bus services that 73 drivers had resigned because they refused to abide by CPS’ vaccine mandate, which requires all employees and contractors to get shots by Oct. 15. The requirement was announced more than two weeks ago.
The kids are better off not going to the public schools.
Spectators are encouraged to watch the construction, bring their pets and enjoy a day on the beach surrounded by sandcastles. Food trucks and a snack bar will be available on site.
Sounds like fun.
“With all the Glibs voting for me”
See, told you you’d be running for office one day. Where do I send my ballot?
I am detecting a theme in the feature pictures for morning links this week.
Yup.
Good trigger discipline.
They somehow found out I had gotten the vax and then dropped demanding I provide proof. I am looking at what HIPAA violation happened that gave them that info, cause if they contacted my medical provider to get this, I plan to sue the fuck out of them after reporting them.
Alex, every single vaccination is reported to a state-run vaccine registry. The government has been making a big deal about the piece of paper handed out, but it’s all a smokeshow to distract that the government knows exactly who has received vaccines and who hasn’t. This is why fake cards and passports aren’t worth shit except maybe to flash at a bouncer to get in somewhere.
I suspect that this registry is beginning to be shared with employers and that’s what happened to you. Once the deadline has passed for all these mandatory attestations, the sharing of the registry will increase to catch those who attested they were vaxxed when they weren’t.
Yes, every state has a vaccine registry, plus if Alex’s insurance is through his employer, his employer can get it through there. So there are two ways.
NH was the last state to spin up its vaccine registry. It went nowhere until the Lil Rona Panic, and then NH-DHHS got its shit together to spin up the registry.
NH’s registry is supposed to allow folks to opt-out, but the procedure is difficult. Sununu issued an emergency order, thankfully now expired, that the law allowing an opt-out from the registry did not apply for the Lil Rona Vaccines. Sununu claimed the CDC required use of the state vaccine registry in order to supply vaccines to the state. Some legislators I know looked into this. The CDC had some reporting requirements. All the CDC required for vaccine reporting was handled by the manufacturer of the vaccine. There was no requirement from the CDC to use the state registry. Sununu lied.
During the attempts to push back on the governor in NH, some legislators tried to change the vaccine registry law so that people had to opt-in to the registry or else nothing went off to the vaccine registry. That attempt unfortunately died.
That would likely be a HIPAA violation. HIPAA applies to insurance companies as well as healthcare providers. I’m not as well versed on what insurers can share with employers, but its not every single damn thing.
I am well versed with HIPAA since I worked on several efforts to create medical insurance related capabilities back when. I know my employer should not have been able to get this from my insurance company even though they pay for part of my coverage. So the only thing I can think of is that they have a vaccine DB somewhere in the state that was willing to share that (against HIPAA again), because otherwise HIPAA has just been rendered meaningless.
The fucking reason I chose not to disclose my status was that the employer has stated we would still need to social distance, wear masks, and comply with whatever other stupid rules they decide the employees should follow so they can force us back into the office while avoiding risk for the company so senior leadership can go back to billing their nightly barhops on the company.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/CF5mgQ7QRSOS_XywZmzFJw.kaYYCQanVT5vJiV8mi6R88
Post breakfast walk scenery.
Start at the lake (last pic) and work back to the beach. Or dont, I’m not your supervisor.
Is this one of those resorts up near Mount Pocono? It looks nicer than Lake Tahoe seeing as how it’s not on fire. Thank you for sharing your vacation.
Yes, Skytop.
It’s lovely.
They have a butterfly shack you can walk in.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/TFaTu-sVTNeYMMg0Hcopqw.RK13J53iNFqLsVBJNE9J5q
Nice
Nice walk in the woods, beats a treadmill. Thanks
These are the days of my lives now.
My morning so far:
Harris/L4: Hey, we need access to your site that is a four hour drive for you.
Me: Sure, I have a tech scheduled and briefed and will meet you there
FAA Control Center: This is canceled
Harris/L4: We didn’t cancel this
Me: Okay, what happened and I told my tech not to launch and he is now tasked for other work
FAA Control Center: I don’t know, I think we messed up
Harris/L4: So you aren’t going to be there?
Me: No, figure out how you two screwed up and call me when you need a tech onsite.
Appropriate reaction on your part.
Update on all things chopping block.
Laid low yesterday, but did ride for a couple of errands with my hunny bunny. Still physically exhausted.
For those looking down, you don’t have to. Yeah, the world is FUBAR, our citizens are retarded sheep, but look at what happened here. People have given to help us through an interesting and trying time, and you’ve barely seen my face. (I’ll definitely be in on the Zomm stuff from now on. When I’m awake.) People as strapped as we are…
This is my first full day off of prescription pain meds, just some herbs and ibuprofen. It hurts, but I’m alive, it’s a beautiful day, and I have all of you in my life.
I shouldered the AR pistol yesterday, I can shoot right now right-handed, but would need to move the light and tape pressure switch. Once I heal, found a finger and thumb, both articulated and ratcheting, that looks like what I want, as setting the thumb would let me hook the pistol grip and shoot lefty.
Love you guys. Anyone here who ever needs anything I can do, you got it. We have room here if anyone passes through the Austin and San Marcos area. We can grill bone-in “fingers for those with special dietary needs…
Good to hear you are improving.
Thankd DEG!
Oh I’m only telling you guys because hunny bunny never reads here. I’m cutting the pain meds because I need to feel what’s going on when I do more than I am supposed to.
For anyone who would like to contribute, the GoFundMe is still up.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/professional-bb-glibertarian?qid=a0f9b24b10b3b7da4b6bdc422c54623f
If you don’t like GoFundMe and would prefer a direct transaction with no fees taken, please email me separately.
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I think a gnat just hit me in my eyes…
Thx for putting this on here, HEX.
Very good news. I hope you can get what you need.
I had just gotten my Tier1Concealment Axis Slim AIWB rig for the Springfield xd-s 9mm with optic a month ago. 35 day wait, but soooo comfy! Going to get a righty model when I heal enough to use it.
Glad to hear you are doing well. And, another
victimparticipant for the Zooms!Glad to hear that things are going as well as can be expected. Looking forward to seeing you in Zoomspace!
Now setting up my profile on the laptop. Got to download my Adobe suite for final tweaking of astrophotos for print and display. This is SOOOO much easier than the phone. I still need a powered USB hub for the telescope and camera stuff for computer control of everything.
Sorry to hear about the loss of digits. I had an engineering prof who lost two fingers and a thumb similarly.
I myself had two finger tips crushed off my hand as a kid. Somehow they were still good enough to reattach. Still look weird after 40 years.
And they complain American Football is confusing.
That looks like a blast!
Looks like way more fun than soccer.
The biggest complaint I have heard about confusing American sports rules is baseball. Particularly those dang Continentals. The Commonwealth and Sub-Continental (?) folks at least can get their head around it due to cricket.
With that guy in Detroit hitting 500 homers I started hearing he won a Triple Crown, I thought that was for horse racing.
If the Japanese can wrap their head around it anyone can wrap their head around it.
Japan, Korea, Cuba, the Dominican Republic. How hard can it be to figure out?
We played a similar game in gym class indoors on the basketball court. Can’t remember what the gym teacher called it. It was no Smear the Queer.
It’s very similar to Aussie rules.
So similar that there is a yearly match where they join forces and mash the rules together to create a hybrid game.
Aussie rules makes more sense. Like rugby without the hump piles.
Gaelic Football and Hurling apparently have almost the exact same rules, but hurling seems about 5 billion times more violent, so is better.
I think it’s time for a new sport to be invented. Mash up Aussie rules with the forwards pass, get rid of that gay bouncing and fisting shit. Then, take time between each play to strategize. The guy throwing the ball might need some time to make long throws, so a good strategy would be to denote 5 or so guys to protect him…
Next you’ll be suggesting that if one guy on the team has a particular talent for making long kicks through the uprights, that one of his teammates should hold the ball still on the ground for him while he gets a running start.
Toss in a commercial interruption every 60 seconds and you’ve got a winner!
I sent the video of the scientist discussing spike proteins and organ damage to the wife. She promptly batted it away with, oh no, The Reuters Fact Team!
I told her they were the propaganda arm of the Global Elite. All I want are facts, and the internet won’t deliver them.
Urushiol isn’t toxic, but causes an immune response.
Minds are made up. All the vaccinated people could spontaneously explode and the people would still say “must have been the unvaccinated that caused it”
The outright arrogance and self-importance of the mendacious propagandists makes my blood boil. I don’t want to start an argument with my wife, but she won’t dig into the evidence at all.
For example (emphasis mine):
Reuters presented the statement to experts at the Meedan Digital Health Lab (meedan.com/digital-health-lab), who responded: “So far, there is no scientific evidence available that suggests spike proteins created in our bodies from the COVID-19 vaccines are toxic or damaging our organs.”
Ladies and gentlemen, your feckEXPERTS.ing
LOL….sounds about right.
With a webpage out of 1997, how could they Not be experts!?
“We asked a health care advocacy NGO for expert medical advice.”
OFFS.
I think that should be the site’s byline
Not “Manson Family Friendly”?
Pregnant American Biden abandoned in Kabul: Taliban kicked mother-to-be in the stomach at checkpoint with her husband and forced her to hide in an apartment where she is STILL trapped after US forces left
It’s OK. According to the Biden administration, she just wanted to stay. So don’t blame them.
It’s also okay, it’s just a few people left behind. #WDATPDIM
Get ready for a glorious victory lap and the media running behind like dogs sniffing each others asses
Meh, it didn’t come out of the uterus yet, it’s just a clump of cells.
So the PYT I know comes banging on my door an hour ago and invites me to her house for a smoke out, Because her daughter started back to school, and she had on her super short shorts.
what to do ?
You know those times when people say “I just wish God would give me a sign?” Well, there is your sign. I say shoot for the moon
So 18-yr old me was studying Calculus with the hottest freshman girl on campus (IMO – and admittedly, small sample size, but still) when somewhere mid-study she puts her hand on my knee.
52 year old me really wants a time machine to go back and smack 18 yr old me with a 2×4 and let him know that that was a sign and he might want to do something about it. For an otherwise smart guy, 18 yr old me was an idiot.
That’s the fucking worst. I remember we all went out to the bar during my freshman year (we had a friend who knew the manager) and after finishing our drunken meal at the local late night Mexican restaurant and walking back to the dorms, this girl who I chatted it up with and danced with from the fourth floor (who was out of my league) asked if I wanted to watch a movie with her when we got back. It was 2 in the morning. My stupid ass response was, “I have a class at 8:30 tomorrow so I should go to bed.” My friends teased me mercilessly and I felt like the dumbest of the dumb asses after I sobered up and they told me that she wanted to have sexy times.
I tried being sober when I went to college. Lady friend ‘apologized’ for drunkely flashing me the night before. Being sarcastic and sober I simply replied ‘I was there, that wasn’t me you flashed’….took me about a week to realize.
So says we all. My boys wanted to see my yearbook and mind you, I was a punk and generally didn’t fit in at school on the account I played hockey and we were in SoCal. They asked, who are all these girls and phone numbers? Well son, those are missed opportunities because I wasn’t paying attention.
So says we all.
Oh, yeah. I’ve got a list of my own.
I solved that problem by being married when I went to college.
You know what to do. What are you hanging around here for?
Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again.
Remind me next time I see you to smack you in the frickin’ head for even asking that question.
Somehow makes me think of this.
Got to work OK despite traffic headaches, but couldn’t get internet on my phone until just now. Was feeling a little paranoid that nefarious forces were trying to keep us all apart. Feel better now, but still looking over my shoulder.
Yay.
Im going to Englewood kroger, cause they have a state store, and I took tonight off to collect Jugsy from the airport.
I anticipate no traffic delays.
I collect Jugsy from the airport tonight. Time to test my “family planning proccedures”.
Good morning.
Came into to work to find the internet not working this morning. Screwed around for a while and finally figured out that the firewall is not negotiating with the modem properly. Change ports, change computers, nothing….
Call the provider. Figured I would verify the IP settings that I’ve had for the last decade or so.
Provider: Yes sir, your IP address is 168.172.X.X, your subnet is 255.255.255.240, and your gateway is 184.X.X.X
Me: Ummmm…. those are different from what I’ve been using for years and the gateway isn’t even on the same subnet as the assigned IP address.
Provider: Sir, that’s what we have in the system.
Me: Do you not see the problem?
Provider: You also have another ip address assigned. 184.X.X.X
Me: What?
Provider: Yes, sir. Is there anything else I can do for you?
Me: !&*^$(*&^%!&^%!!!!
In short, they updated my ip assignment and didn’t notify me. So now I’ve got about 12 services to fix and a half day of no phones.
Were you paying for a static IP?
Yep
Chump! Collect unemployment like all the cool kids in Biden’s America!